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    My Albatross

    APRIL 2, 2012 10:38AM

    By cancerdancer


    Topics: cancer, surgery, recurrence, physicians, albatross

    • 7 Ratings
    • 239 Views
    • 10 Comments
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    Cancer is Chaos

    MARCH 30, 2012 11:13AM

    By geezerchick


    Topics: reconstruction, surgery, cancer

    • 1 Ratings
    • 188 Views
    • 5 Comments
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    my body, my Self.

    MARCH 21, 2012 8:55AM

    By Jewellya


    Topics: open call, psychology, surgery, weight loss, workout, diet, mother, esteem, self worth, image, body

    • 0 Ratings
    • 216 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Playing the Game

    MARCH 9, 2012 10:22AM

    By Julie White


    Topics: health insurance, medical costs, bills, surgery, cancer

    • 2 Ratings
    • 378 Views
    • 3 Comments
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    Healing the heart as well as the body

    FEBRUARY 14, 2012 8:16AM

    By Caitlin Kelly


    Topics: science, feminism, surgery, emotions, hip replacement, medicine, health

    • 3 Ratings
    • 236 Views
    • 3 Comments
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    3 Weeks From Today I'll Be Under the Knife

    FEBRUARY 1, 2012 11:58AM

    By ladyfarmerjed


    Topics: anxiety, hospitals, surgery

    • 2 Ratings
    • 296 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    Pizza for Mando

    JANUARY 28, 2012 2:40PM

    By Kate Mohler


    Topics: surgery, diamondbacks, world series, garage, renovation

    • 2 Ratings
    • 339 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    Injury, Surgery, Therapy, & Regression. Next: Recovery.

    JANUARY 13, 2012 1:36PM

    By Heinz Thorvald


    Topics: therapist, pain doctor, orthopedist, staples, motor vehicle collision, car accident, drunk driving, arthroscopy, physical therapy, surgery, injury

    • Editor's Pick
    • 6 Ratings
    • 1328 Views
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    My Month of Denial

    JANUARY 2, 2012 11:00AM

    By cancerdancer


    Topics: cancer, memoir, surgery, baldness, hair loss, denial, surgical port, metaphors, meryl streep

    • 2 Ratings
    • 120 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    A Temporary Death

    DECEMBER 15, 2011 3:56PM

    By Spike The Chicken


    Topics: life, death, unconsciousness, consciousness, anesthesia, surgery

    • 39 Ratings
    • 1693 Views
    • 50 Comments
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    How Bad Is Your Pain? UPDATE: Reality Post-Op Pix

    DECEMBER 8, 2011 11:35PM

    By Sally Swift


    Topics: medicine, drugs, surgery, doctors, pain, health insurance

    • 4 Ratings
    • 414 Views
    • 5 Comments
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    Why Are Anesthesiologists such A-holes?

    NOVEMBER 16, 2011 4:59PM

    By Firechick


    Topics: health, jerks, surgery

    • 13 Ratings
    • 839 Views
    • 22 Comments
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    Getting My Belly Ready is Hard Work

    NOVEMBER 4, 2011 6:21PM

    By snarkychaser


    Topics: how to make a fat tummy look thinner, heart ablation, surgery, tanning booths

    • 1 Ratings
    • 171 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    Will It Never End? Part Two

    OCTOBER 8, 2011 9:05AM

    By Sandy Powers


    Topics: sandy powers, mastectomy, radiologist, surgery, nurse, leading cause of deaths in women, deaths, invasive breast cancer, technology, science, open+call, health, feminism, environment, family, stereotactic biopsy, breast cancer

    • 3 Ratings
    • 675 Views
    • 8 Comments
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    1-800-GET-THIN!

    SEPTEMBER 25, 2011 1:32AM

    By Victoria Carlson


    Topics: diet related deaths, gastric bypass surgery, lap band, surgery, beauty, weight, dieting, 1-800-get-thin

    • 0 Ratings
    • 100 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Off-Again

    AUGUST 25, 2011 1:37PM

    By Kate Mohler


    Topics: minnesota, surgery, boyfriends

    • 20 Ratings
    • 417 Views
    • 28 Comments
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    ROSYCHEEKS AND THE CASE OF THE MISSING MUSE

    AUGUST 2, 2011 1:06PM

    By Rosycheeks


    Topics: hospitals, insurance, surgery, erato the muse

    • 48 Ratings
    • 1069 Views
    • 85 Comments
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    Scylla at rest

    JULY 22, 2011 10:41PM

    By Scylla the Rock


    Topics: to feel strong one more time, healing, surgery

    • 17 Ratings
    • 549 Views
    • 25 Comments
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    Fred Hallman ~ Update 2

    JUNE 16, 2011 3:42PM

    By OSocial


    Topics: real time, open+call, fellow os'er, surgery, fred hallman

    • 14 Ratings
    • 1007 Views
    • 17 Comments
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    Father & Son, at Each Other's Side

    JUNE 15, 2011 11:34PM

    By Jeremiah Horrigan


    Topics: family, fathers and sons, surgery, cancer, father's day, my father as a person

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