: About Me

~Graduate of Central Michigan University: Fire Up Chips!

~Avid traveler: have been to 10 countries and 43 U.S. States

~Live in Texas and Florida

~Am an addicted marathon competitor with the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's Team in Training

Love to talk, so feel free to email me: LadyT218@hotmail.com

My passion is ...

Traveling

I know too much about ...

cancer

My parents always told me ...

to follow my heart, and always be polite

My childhood ambition ...

to become a marine biologist like Jacques Cousteau

My favorite memory ...

sleigh rides at Christmas!

Why I write ...

to ease stress and formulate coherent thoughts...things are easier to work out on paper (or a laptop!)

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Reading Madeleine L'Engle's The Summer of the Great-grandmother

My first job ...

Babysitting...I was twelve:)

My best moment ...

graduating from college

My inspiration ...

Life

Creative Writing > Memoirs Testimonies: When a parent has cancer

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It started with a cough that wouldn't go away. Three months later, after witnessing him cough up blood, my mother tricked my father into going to the emergency room at our local hospital. An x-ray and three hours later, an ER doctor told my father that he had cancer, and that they were scheduling an appointment for him to see a lung specialist. I found out about my dad's cancer by accident; I was home one weekend from college, and I took a message from my dad's best friend who was calling to say that he wouldn't be able to take dad to his next chemotherapy treatment. At a complete loss for...

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