(archived) Finding My Bearings Now
Ren PowellAn unedited journal that began with a breast cancer diagnosis. Ended with new hiking kit.
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| Issues | 88 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | 15 days ago |
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Changing Focus
The day after my breast cancer diagnosis, I started writing a public diary here on substack. I’d left facebook for a time, but I needed to be heard—if only by a few strangers. It was an unexpectedly lonely time.
It has been nearly three y...
And it has been another year
I checked out for a while.
Last fall I had a second operation on my foot which put me back in the wheelchair for a month. “Just” four weeks this time, the surgeon said. It knocked the wind out of me - or the will. I went back to work agai...
Scars Under the Skin
I’ve been having trouble breathing the past week. Maybe longer. Not continually, but when I’m quiet: driving, trying to sleep, etc. This stress response is nothing new, but it still makes me feel anxious and claustrophobic. Breathing exerci...
Cancer Math
The unedited journal. There will be typos.
I found two lumps near my armpit. They hurt. But despite what we often hear about that being a good sign, I know now that sometimes cancerous lumps do hurt.
The oncologist pressed and pr...
Cancer's Foot in the Door
Back in the room, in the Swedish design chair, feet up on the orange faux leather “krakk”. Another needle. Everything in this room is slick and sharp, or tacky and tight.
I never had problems with needles before. My veins have always hoppe...
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Poet, playwright, tidal scavenger. I place the unnerving beauty of the world centerstage: the sinister elegance of the parasitic wasp, the chaos of Dadaist art. I transcribe the lines between what pushes us to go and what compels us to stay.
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