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Welcome to Dispatch from the Oncology Underground. Prostate cancer, medical absurdity, and the slow-motion collapse of dignity, served with a side of dark humour and the occasional tofu recipe.
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Sharon’s Wardrobe Will Be Released to Charity Following My Suspicious Death (opens the original)
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The Chair Where Clothes Go to Think About Their Future (opens the original)
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Eleven Degrees and the Bastards Are in Shorts (opens the original)
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The Most Canadian Of Words: “Sorry” (opens the original)
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When I came to Canada from Belgium in 1979, I understood that I would have to adjust to the distances, the winters, and the possibility that someone might consider a sandwich adequate lunch. I had not anticipated having to learn what “sorry” meant. I already knew the word. It seemed reasonably straightforward: you had done something, regretted it, and wished to acknowledge the inconvenience. In Canada, this turned out to be an embarrassingly narrow understanding of a word that can express remors
In Cancer Treatment “Aggressive”, “Intelligent”, “Effective”: Only One Describes How Hard You’re Being Hit (opens the original)
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