“Old age is no place for sissies.” Bette Davis I am just getting adjusted to the latest adjustments. When I was in medical school, I heard that word “adjustment” used as medical terminology for the first time, as in “He’s just having an adolescent adjustment reaction.” Before that, I had experienced the word more frequently… Continue reading Adjustments
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The Purple Bathing Suit
“April is the cruelest month” T.S. Eliot Although I have spent my professional career battling cancer, cancer is not the cruelest disease. Tonight I was looking through old photographs that my father had taken to a print shop to be scanned on to a disk. He sent me a copy, but I had not had… Continue reading The Purple Bathing Suit