Long Oncologist Poems

Around five years ago, I was hit with the news I had breast cancer. I kept waiting for news of this and that, and everytime I turned around, I would get more negative news. First,...

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I’ve never experienced hallelujah or come-to -Jesus moments
like I’m sure many religious folks do.
I’ve never spoken in tongues (nor would I want to).
I don’t believe I was ever moved much by the Holy Spirit in...

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I was coming up on 60, when I found a lump in my left breast.
One day of anxiety turned into two weeks of tribulation
as I returned again and again to the hospital for tests.
At last,...

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There was a backup outside the radiation therapy room.  Two patients were rolled up in their 
wheel chairs and left outside while their nurses went to check on the schedule.

He was sixty-five.  She...

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Well, Pop is resting now.

He didn’t get to go home on Thursday. The Oncologist 
wanted him to have either Hospice or Home Health Care.
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breast cancer runs rampant within me late mother side
whar moost every female diagnosed with emotional ride
into the depths of despair where metastatic cells pried
their way into the appendages whar din o suckling provide
did initial sustenance...

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I do not know if I truly have ever been granted
divine intervention, but most likely I received it
after my surgery for breast cancer when a biopsy was done
to determine if I was “genetic” for my...

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How sad!
How bad
I didn't know, I just found out
Your lovely daughter, she spat it out
Nine years had flown by
I did not know you were going to die
Even when we reconnected you were braver than I
You...

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I heard the word no woman wants to hear,
at the time a shock, a moment filled with fear,
fear of the unknown, the first thought of mortality,
after many years a change in my normality,
news to be...

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Again another MRI, the clacking sounds -- the injection of dye
It’s been awhile with covid on the rise
And vaccines found and given now inside and outdoors
The radiologist sent me to 7 pm and changed it...

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The day my life went bizacko,
I had me a brush with “big C”
“No biggie; just radiation,” they said,
“after lumpectomy.”

“No, wait,” said the surgeon,“Your cancer’s genetic!
Let’s have you do chemo too.”
A doctor friend wiser said that...

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This bridge has arched the lake's narrows
for a century, flanked on either side
by Autumn trees shedding their faded leaves,
blowing with the first snowflakes
across worn gray stones of my spirit.

Six months ago you felt the first...

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Dear Santa:

Although there are some things I'd really like
(a sauna or massage bed comes to mind)
and who'd not like a fun, fast pretty car?
But what I want is difficult to find!

I had it once -...

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8/10/02



Imagine being told that your body has been invaded, and the doctor said:
I can only give you medicine that will control how long you will live,
But you knowing that you’re Almighty Savior has the antidote...

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Room 5 – that’s where it starts
It is always 14 minutes from being nowhere
You can settle in for liquid cocktails
Ordered up by an oncologist and pharmacist
The mixologist has 10 years experience delivering the Red Devil
No...

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So as not to come under the scrutiny of an oncologist,
Each six months to check my moles I visit my dermatologist!
His exam is as thorough as that of an investigative criminologist.
Sometimes he'll take a biopsy...

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beyond earnest vows
and doting promises
our love will last
forever and a day
yet all avid promises
are one day shattered
in spite of best intentions

sometimes I hear its thunder 
it’s in the quiver of his voice
the shiver of his...

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When I was diagnosed last year with cancer of my breast
That was when my faith was really put to the test
For a while I just felt numb then reality kicked in
And the hardest trial I...

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acrostic

2   Two family members died this past year.
0   Zero was the amount of my last raise.
1   One car needs new tires, the other new brakes. 
5   Five...

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