Tag Archives: cancer

The Trial

Posted on October 23, 2021 by susanmsink@gmail.com

About a minute after I found out I had Stage IV ovarian cancer, back in February 2016, I learned the word immunotherapy. For at least a year, and occasionally since then, people sent me links to videos and articles about … Continue reading →

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The Break

Posted on October 20, 2021 by susanmsink@gmail.com

I’m seven weeks from my last chemo treatment. This round I had one infusion a month for two cycles, six months in total. After three months I had a scan that showed, for the first time, not progress but stability. … Continue reading →

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My Life with the Indigo Girls

Posted on October 10, 2020 by susanmsink@gmail.com

After college I moved to Atlanta. My boyfriend lived on Emory Avenue and attended Emory Law School. I had a room in an apartment shared with two women law students on Briarcliff Road. There was no bus between Emory Ave … Continue reading →

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In the Garden

Posted on April 10, 2020 by susanmsink@gmail.com

It is Maundy Thursday, and my evening didn’t go as planned. I wanted to make a feast and had planned to wash my husband’s feet, if he would let me, which is doubtful. I think it would have been a … Continue reading →

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Poetry Month

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

I’ve been writing a lot of poems lately. Cowbird.com went over to a static site, so there is no more posting “new stories” there. I have moved with a lot of other Cowbird writers over to Medium.com. You can find … Continue reading →

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Fragility 2

Posted on November 19, 2016 by susanmsink@gmail.com

All day today I’ve been grappling. I guess I’ve been grappling for a week now. Finally I stood still and formed the question I’m grappling with: “How long after the last treatment do you know it’s the last treatment?” I’m … Continue reading →

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Miss Sharon Jones

Posted on August 29, 2016 by susanmsink@gmail.com

Yesterday, Steve and I went on a date to Minneapolis. Our favorite dates go like this: Mass at the Basilica, brunch at Moose and Sadie’s, play at the Guthrie or movie at the Lagoon or Edina theater. Because the film … Continue reading →

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Garden

Posted on June 5, 2016 by susanmsink@gmail.com

My sister came to help me this week, during a challenging round of chemotherapy. Since the beginning I’ve been doing everything possible to stay healthy for a week-long conference at St. Mary’s College in South Bend, where I’m the afternoon … Continue reading →

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Telling

Posted on April 16, 2016 by susanmsink@gmail.com

One of the interesting things about the cancer is figuring out the “need to tell.” Who do I need to tell? Who do I want to tell? Knowing my hair was about to fall out made me feel the need … Continue reading →

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Good Girls

Posted on April 12, 2016 by susanmsink@gmail.com

Remember the Billy Joel song “Only the Good Die Young?” I thought that song was a total scandal. How could he say what I somewhere deep thought was true– what scared me most? But it wasn’t there because of Catholicism. I … Continue reading →

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