by Carolyn M. Crane | Dec 14, 2018 | Essays, Health Care Reform, Series, The Dog Days of Cancer |
Jack and I were determined to have a beautiful summer. He’d recovered well from his brain surgery in early March when kind Dr. Girgis had removed an orange-sized tumor from his frontal lobe. Dr. Fragoso, his radiation oncologist, had confirmed that the tumor was a...
by Carolyn M. Crane | Dec 5, 2018 | Community, Essays, Politics, Series |
Every month for decades now I have named the moon. I am definitely a low-profile witch, but this is one thing I’ve stuck with. It is a sort of prayer, I guess, the naming, but it is also a way to focus attention, to bring the imaginal realm into my reality. It helps...
by Carolyn M. Crane | Nov 28, 2018 | Essays, Series |
“Do not go gentle into that good night…Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” –Dylan Thomas In mid-October, the steroids stopped helping Jack’s clarity, so it was time to wean him off them. I knew this was the beginning of the end, and I had to fight the urge to...
by Carolyn M. Crane | Nov 24, 2018 | Essays, Health Care Reform, Humor, Series |
November 24, 2018 Dear Swope Medical Group, Incorporated: Last Tuesday I received your bill for $1,215 for services rendered by the admitting physician at my local emergency room. My husband Jack was the recipient of Dr. Golding’s* services on 9/4/18. Jack died on...
by Carolyn M. Crane | Nov 7, 2018 | Essays, Health Care Reform, Series |
In the two and half years my husband Jack fought his cancers, we worked with over ten different doctors. Our journey began at the local hospital, circled to Stanford and up to UC Med in Sacramento, and then took an unlikely turn to Eureka, California. We spent many...
by Kim Bateman | Jul 20, 2017 | Essays, Psychology, Series |
Death Dialogues #4 Second Fool: “Who builds stronger than a mason, a shipwright, or a carpenter?” First Fool: “…a gravemaker: the houses that he makes last till doomsday.” from from Hamlet I sat on the floor across from the vet who had just put down our 12-year-old,...
