Jun 182012
 
Treating the Side Effects of Cancer

When my husband was diagnosed with thyroid cancer, the doctor told us we were lucky. “This is a good cancer,” she said. I wanted to slap her. Yet for all her bravado, she at least moved quickly. The thyroid surgery was scheduled immediately; radiation would follow several weeks later. At every step, the surgeons and doctors were [...]

Jun 112012
 
Medications, Mindfulness, and IVF

To be honest, I don’t remember much about the medications I took during our IVF cycles. I couldn’ttell you their names, or what I took them for, or the order in which I took them. I do remember staring at the pre printed calendar the doctor gave us right at the beginning of each cycle, with [...]