6 In the continuing saga…
More words you don’t want to hear come out of a doctor’s mouth: “I think maybe you should talk with an oncologist about that.”
And confirmation from an oncologist: “Yes, I think you should schedule an appointment.”
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.
A. D.
hope this is nothing jeannine.
best,
adt
Kells
blah!
I look forward to seeing you in January.
Happy thoughts, happy thoughts…
Anne
Sending good thoughts from this part of the world. I hope it’s nothing, or if it’s something, that it’s nothing much. Please keep us posted!
Peter
Hmmm . . . what is going on? back channel me? xo p
jeannine
Thanks all for your good thoughts. It probably is nothing, just frightening.
Did get some really funny advice too, though:
“Don’t exercise too vigorously or play any contact sports, because your spleen might explode.”
Doctor’s orders to loaf about, then!
Rusty
OMG! I’m sorry, but body parts are never supposed to explode!
Be well. Thinking extremely positive thoughts!
Who the hell is stealing all your good health karma?!