- At December 29, 2005
- By Jeannine Gailey
- In Blog
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Thanks for everyone and their good thoughts. Your comments and e-mails meant a lot to me for the couple of nervous days.
After my meeting with the hema/oncologist, she thought it was unlikely I had something dangerous like lymphoma or leukemia, so hooray. Instead she is testing me for the much less scary mastocytosis. Which is mostly treatable with inocuous things like antihistimines. So no more cancer fears. What a nice present for the New Year! Woo hoo!
On the funnier side of things, one of the tests she did in the office was to thump around on my left side (to feel for spleen enlargement.) Then, she had another doctor come in and thump around. Then, they both thumped around. For ten minutes, I was a human drum. If I’d known I would have worn thicker clothes!
All righty everyone, I need to send out a submission packet and I have no idea where to send. Someone tell me!
And Happy Pre-New Year To All! I’m buying frosty chocolate milkshakes for everyone!
Jeannine Hall Gailey served as the second Poet Laureate of Redmond, Washington and the author of Becoming the Villainess, She Returns to the Floating World, Unexplained Fevers, The Robot Scientist’s Daughter, and winner of the Moon City Press Book Prize and SFPA’s Elgin Award, Field Guide to the End of the World. Her latest, Flare, Corona from BOA Editions, was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. She’s also the author of PR for Poets, a Guidebook to Publicity and Marketing. Her work has been featured on NPR’s The Writer’s Almanac, Verse Daily and The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Poetry, and JAMA.
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Sorry all that scary health stuff happened. I’m just getting back to catching up on blogs…How about sending poems to Post Road or Folio?
David
Post Road, absolutely. Possibly Fugue or Third Coast?
(Not having read your recent work, The Georgia Review seems a solid fit. No simulsubs.)
Steven D. Schroeder
The Eleventh Muse! The Eleventh Muse! Please, really… 🙂
Other places I think you might fit and that would be worthy of your work: Mid-American, Bat City Review, Cimarron Review…
I’ll take you up on that milkshake offer. One of my favorite fatty vices.
Wendy Wisner
I’m so glad you’re well. Happy New Year.
Lana Hechtman Ayers
So glad it turned out to be minor. Now I feel like celebrating the New Year!
How about Blue Earth Review?
Best,
Lana
Ivy
So happy to know all’s well. Happy New Year!
jeannine
Thanks for your very helpful suggestions – I’ve already made two submissions 🙂
And thanks for your well-wishes – here’s to a healthy 2006!
Anonymous
my baby boy (2 yrs old) has mastocytosis…and its a lot more serious of a condition than most people/doctors give it credit for. there is no cure for it, and even with treatment (which helps symptoms slightly)it is still very uncomfortble and painful. for more info about it check out the mastocytosis society’s website.