Category Archives: cancer

The Cancer Kitchen

Posted on February 19, 2019 by susanmsink@gmail.com

As you know if you read this blog, I am kinda all about the food. I love cooking, and I love growing food to cook. Cancer and food, or more specifically chemo and food, is a huge challenge. The challenge … Continue reading →

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Little Mousetrap on My Belly

Posted on February 1, 2019 by susanmsink@gmail.com

The oncologist nurse said “Of course, you know it from the commercial.” She was talking about the “onpro” version of Neulasta. Oh yeah, I know that commercial. They play it all the time. I hardly even watch commercial television and … Continue reading →

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The Blessing of Good Thoughts

Posted on January 24, 2019 by susanmsink@gmail.com

There must be a lot of people praying for me. It’s very clear to me that the peace I feel, the love I feel, even joy at times, comes from the prayers of others. Sure there is frustration, even to … Continue reading →

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Recurrence 1

Posted on January 5, 2019 by susanmsink@gmail.com

Today was my first day of chemo to treat a recurrence of Stage IV ovarian cancer. We first saw signs of a recurrence back in March, when a small nodule and “signs of additional nodularity” appeared between the lobes of … Continue reading →

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Oncology at the Gym

Posted on February 21, 2018 by susanmsink@gmail.com

It has been a long, cold winter. We would have liked significantly more snow than we received, and significantly fewer days below zero. But now I’ve set up my first tray of seeds: leeks, red onions and garlic, on the … Continue reading →

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Women and Cancer

Posted on October 7, 2017 by susanmsink@gmail.com

OK, enough with the pause (haha), I have something on my mind and some time to say it. This morning I was reading a blog by a friend who just had her last (16th) chemotherapy treatment for cancer. She lives … Continue reading →

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Pause

Posted on September 23, 2017 by susanmsink@gmail.com

Dear Reader, I started writing this blog back in 2008. I started it for a specific reason. I’d written an essay that I submitted to America magazine. It was a risky essay, and it was a nuanced one– about living in an … Continue reading →

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Good Health

Posted on July 17, 2017 by susanmsink@gmail.com

I just read a piece by Sherman Alexie giving his reason for halting a book tour for a memoir about his mother. She has been haunting him in his hotel rooms. In the piece, he says: “I don’t believe in … Continue reading →

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Wild White Indigo

Posted on June 18, 2017 by susanmsink@gmail.com

  Thinking about blog post topics a few days ago (before this strange flurry of activity!) I thought: chickens, recipe/garden, beauty. I’ve been walking around in beauty with a poem line in my head for it seems like three weeks: … Continue reading →

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My Tribe

Posted on June 6, 2017 by susanmsink@gmail.com

    I just returned from my college reunion. It was wonderful to be back in Grinnell, Iowa, with my tribe. I knew some of those in attendance back in college, but I’ve developed many more relationships with people in our … Continue reading →

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