As you well know because I won't shut up about it this summer, pancreatic cancer runs in my family on my dad's side. Because of this, my father has both participated as a subject in research into familial pancreatic cancer, and for the last several years has received regular screenings of his pancreas. There's...
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For someone who has an extraordinarily low tolerance for structure, I'm really missing my normal routine. It may not actually be the routine I'm missing, but the space? I miss my home. My jogs in the woods. Greg and Cleo. The quiet time I need to keep busy and sane.
I haven't had much time...
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As you may know from my vague and sporadic tweets and all my allusions to stress, last week was a tough one.
See, the day before we left town for Greg's grandfather's funeral, we got a call from my parents after one of my dad's routine pancreas screenings. He gets those about four times a...
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The Sadness
I started off this morning crying before I even had a chance to drink my coffee.
Last September when I went to Albany, NY, to participate in the fundraiser for pancreatic cancer research my parents spearhead every year, it was bittersweet to bump into Janice, an old high school friend. We hadn't been close...
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I thought a couple weeks into 2010 I'd do a little wrap-up of 2009. It was, after all, a fairly unusual year for me. Also, I've neglected my pal the bulleted list and I feel I owe him a big one.
(Wee note: I've gone and put a new theme on the blog, so poke...
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That's how my friend titled an email to me Monday night, after hearing the news that Patrick Swayze lost his two-year fight against the disease. This just a day after my parents put on their big fundraiser to support research into early-detection tests and a cure.
The event was a huge success. Well over 200...
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Thanks to the stunning generosity of friends, family, blog readers, Twitter followers, and perfect strangers, I blew past my original goal to raise $500 for pancreatic-cancer research by the second day of my fund-raising effort. By the end of that day, I'd raised over $1,000. I've upped my goal to $1,500.
The fundraising walk outside...
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When I got off the bus to meet my friend for a hungover shopping date in Gastown on Saturday afternoon, I greeted her with this gem:
"I am such an asshole."
"Um, hm?"
"Ok, so 4th Avenue is closed between Arbutus and Burrard today for Hippy Daze*, and on the detour I saw a bunch of women...
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