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My Multifocal Life

My Cancer on Lockdown

For a long time, I’ve been living with cancer,  lung cancer to be exact. This is in fact year 8. I had more or less

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Anniversaries

December 31, 2018. The seventh anniversary of my cancer diagnosis. I’m as surprised still to be alive as I am to be relying on my spiffy, purple walking stick […]

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Scanxiety
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Scanxiety 2

Last year, around the time I created the “scanxiety” collage, one of my tumors started to change size, which led to surgery this past January.

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Spiculation

After 6 months of “partial remission,” and almost five years of “progression-free survival,” I’ve learned just how partial “partial remission” can be. One of the

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The Scan Report. Nancy K. Miller
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The Scan Report

The oncologist does not mince words when delivering the scan report. Good news (“Good Pet”) or bad, it’s the facts minus emotion. December 2016 brought

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Scanxiety

“Scanxiety,” a coinage not of my making (I wish!) but that makes the point efficiently, is an attempt to represent the limbo I described in

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Nancy K. Miller. Partial Remission detail
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Partial Remission

After the last appointment (June 2016), my oncologist doubled the time between scans to once every six months from every three. Almost five years later,

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Nancy K. Miller. Diary

Welcome. Some musings on my current preoccupations with the worlds of illness and the worlds of books, the vicissitudes of living with cancer and the need now, in my eighties, to imagine what new writing might be. 

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