Chemotherapy

All my traveling makes my husband jealous All my traveling makes my husband jealous
He seems to believe that when I travel I must be sleeping with my boss.
A friend is doing chemo. What should I say? A friend is doing chemo. What should I say?
We're mostly online friends, and I'm kind of shy. I care but do not want to intrude.
This is my brain on chemo This is my brain on chemo
My breast cancer treatment left me in a mental fog. As more of us survive cancer, will our post-chemo problems spawn a new branch of medicine?
I've got breast cancer and I don't want to live I've got breast cancer and I don't want to live
I wanted to die even before I got sick. But my family will kill me if I just give up hope!
A nauseating ruling A nauseating ruling
Clarence Thomas says marijuana has no medical use. Maybe he'd like to try my cancer
"Mom's Marijuana" "Mom's Marijuana"
When I was diagnosed with cancer, my mother just said yes to growing 11-foot pot plants in her backyard garden.
Humanitarian aid Humanitarian aid
Tomorrow, he would be sterile; today he needed to collect his sperm. And I had to teach him how to do it.
The cord-blood controversy The cord-blood controversy
First we were supposed to eat the placenta. Now we're supposed to freeze it.
Born to pop pills
I have a well-chosen capsule for every occasion.
Beyond dinner
Cooking for pain, for loss, for heartache, for life.
"The Red Devil"
A woman with cancer rediscovers her body through a passionate love affair.
The other woman
I can't wish she were dead; she may be dying.
My Mother, the disaster
When my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer, of course I came out to help. But I didn't expect her to seduce the doctor.
Triumph of the cure
Lance Armstrong beat testicular cancer and then won the Tour de France. Was it a miracle or is he a poster boy for the power of modern medicine?
The last waltz
A dying woman calls her community together to thank it, to say goodbye -- and to dance.
Word by Word
Spiritual Chemotherapy by Anne Lamott

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