The Thing That Rhymes With Dancer
Last year, about this time, I was diagnosed with kidney cancer. After months of stomach problems, I had a CT scan, which revealed a small tumor on my left kidney. I wrote about it last June, just before my biopsy:
On looking: about mountains, cancer, and writing craft
It’s Wednesday morning, and I’m looking for a moose in the mountains of Colorado. Maybe a bear. A rattlesnake, a mountain lion, a lynx. So far I have seen two mule deer, a fox on the drive to Colorado from Kansas, a chipmunk, and a ton of aspen trees still hanging onto their spring green, but I’ve decided I want to see something exotic, something unavai…
I had surgery in September to remove the tumor, along with about 1/3 of my kidney. The recovery process was long and painful and I wrote abou…
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