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July 31, 2020July 31, 2020 The Olive Gal 4 Comments
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Is This Thing On? Notes from the COVID-19 High-Risk Abyss

Ah-HEM. Tap. Tap. Tap. HELLO! OH—There’s no one here. Wait a minute. There’s one guy in the back who keeps yelling, “SHOW US YOUR TITS!” Sorry, guy. Wrong blog. Let’s try this again. Some thoughts from…

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September 10, 2018September 11, 2018 The Olive Gal 3 Comments
  • Stupid Cancer

Of Course My Next Scan is on September 11

Because why wouldn’t it be? At 4:20pm, for good measure. I called up the radiologist last week, after a summer of radio silence from my doctor and the lab technicians. I sent a few barely-concerned emails…

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first scan
June 22, 2018June 22, 2018 The Olive Gal 10 Comments
  • Stupid Cancer

Waiting to Exhale: the First Scan Results are Here

I guess I wasn’t paying attention. Or I guess I had buried it, because I couldn’t bare the thought of bad news. But all of a sudden, it was the week I’d be having my first…

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DIY palliative care
June 20, 2018June 20, 2018 The Olive Gal 1 Comment
  • Stupid Cancer

Do It Yourself (DiY) Palliative Care

I swear this is a post about DIY palliative care. But just hang in here with me for a minute while I tell a story that seems completely unrelated on the surface, but that my weird…

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palliative care
June 14, 2018June 15, 2018 The Olive Gal 1 Comment
  • Stupid Cancer

The Devil Wears Palliative Care

Palliative care. Before this week’s appointment, I had all kinds of preconceived notions about it. My knee-jerk assumption was that palliative care was for people who were in the active process of dying, i.e. in hospice…

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cannabis oil
June 4, 2018June 5, 2018 The Olive Gal 4 Comments
  • Stupid Cancer

Cannabis Oil: For Pain Relief or For Killing Cancer?

I squeeze a tiny blob from the plastic syringe onto my finger. It’s as thick and oily as tree sap mixed with ear wax. I touch the tip of my tongue to the blob and—YURCHHH—it’s bitter.…

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targeted therapy
May 29, 2018June 20, 2018 The Olive Gal 13 Comments
  • Stupid Cancer

A Hail Mary to Targeted Therapy

You don’t just wake up with cancer one day. It takes a long time to get from “uh oh, what’s that mass?” to “it’s Stage IV incurable lung cancer.” During that agonizing wait time, I slowly started…

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May 23, 2018May 23, 2018 The Olive Gal 12 Comments
  • Stupid Cancer

Welcome to Cancer

It’s 2:00pm on a Thursday in early May. I step one foot in front of the other in the crowded oncology waiting room, eyes downcast. I think about all the people in the room and if…

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california
February 7, 2017June 4, 2018 The Olive Gal 1 Comment
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10 Years in California

When I was a little girl in Massachusetts, I often played in the woods with my neighborhood friends, climbing over moss-covered stones in the cool, damp understory to collect earthy trinkets and play adventure games. The…

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convention brain
September 13, 2016June 4, 2018 The Olive Gal No Comments
  • Extreme Sarcasm

How To Shake Convention Brain

How many of you have ever gone to a convention and taken a picture like this? And how many of you have come back after the convention and gone, “Yeah, I have no idea what this is…

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