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The Waiting Room
The waiting rooms of a cancer center are rooms of many stories that are all different but also all the same. We sit, waiting for our names to be called for a poison to be put in our bodies to fight this disease that decides to capture or take over our bodies. We don’t know
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Thank You Jeep
Dear Jeep, I want to thank you for giving me some of my most special memories since I was little. My family has always been a Jeep family, specifically Jeep Wranglers. We had a little bit of time where we took a break from the Jeep family. Honestly, I don’t know how or why, because
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The Lists
When days are long or the rides to the doctors office are quiet and me and mom just sit in silence, I get to thinking about random thoughts, questions, places, or activities. Sometimes I’ll bring certain places up to Mom and we will talk about them and express our ideas of what our opinions are,
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Madder Than A Wet Hen
You talk about being pissed off? The Blanton family has been pissed off for a while. I’m pretty sure for the whole month of July. I think if you talk to any of us, especially me, you can tell we could probably spit nails. And who could blame us? We always try to make the
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The Thief of Life
Do we have a feeling when death is near? Do we know that our time is coming to a close? Are we oblivious to the void? Do you sometimes feel like it is right around the corner, lurking like the angel of death ready to grab you? Or do you feel like it is going
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Pavement or Dirt roads?
All our lives, we live to fulfill dreams, goals, or just try to make it without making too many mistakes or messing up. Growing up as kids we have dreams to be NBA players, astronauts, doctors or supermodels. We don’t want to be boring and plain humans from small towns. We don’t want to just
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Tears
The tears come often more than I would like. They come at times when I least expect them and at times when I expect them the most. Sometimes I refuse to go places because I know when I go I will not be able to hold back the river of emotions. I know the emotions
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One Step Forward and Three Steps Back
One step forward and three steps back. That’s how my cancer treatment has been this whole time. I’ll get good news and think, “Oh, maybe THIS will be the beginning of the cancer free journey!” But a couple of weeks go by and then something will happen like another brain bleed, or more tumors will
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Dream A Dream
Do you dream? Is it an every night occurrence or is it just occasionally? Do you feel like your dreams are trying to tell you something about your present life, your future, or your past? Do you think your dreams are vision or communication from God? I’ve heard very many things about dreams throughout my
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Second by Second
I look at the clock and watch it tick, second by second, as I lay in the bed covered in tubes, wires, and stickers. As I watch the sunset rise on the building across the street from the ICU room, I can’t sleep from the flood of intrusive thoughts even though I’ve once again had
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Nurse Turned Patient 