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Reading Ferrante

It might seem odd to use the word rapturous to describe a reaction to a piece of literary criticism, but I can’t think of a better one to

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My Multifocal Life

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 several pulmonary nodules

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The Scan Report. Nancy K. Miller
My Multifocal Life

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 the first bad

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My Multifocal Life

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 an earlier diary

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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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