THE MOURNING AFTER NATASHA

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CONTENTS

Featured Posts:

• The Puzzling Partnership of Cancer Parent and Social Worker
• Update 6 Months After Loss of Child: ‘You Will Always Know her Name’
• Cancer Etiquette: Dealing With Blundering Well-Wishers
• Shocking Pink: A Bereaved Brain Tumor Parent’s Perspective on Breast Cancer ‘Overawareness’

Before the Storm:

• My daughter’s diagnosis. An Uneasy Alliance (Published in the Washington Post)
• Welcome to Pediatric Cancerland: How it Feels for the First 24 Hours
• Post-Traumatic Stress in Parents of Kids With Cancer (Published in the San Francisco Chronicle)
• Brain tumor recurrence. The Beast is Back (Published in the Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation’s newsletter)
• You Know You’re a Veteran Cancer Mom When …
• Cancer Etiquette: Dealing With Blundering Well-Wishers
• Desperate Measures: Buying Pot for my 11-Year-Old
• The Puzzling Partnership of Cancer Parent and Social Worker
• High ‘Scanxiety’: Portrait of a Brain Tumor Parent on the Brink
• Speech at Natasha’s memorial. The Essence of Natasha

Immediate Loss:

• The Sting of Bereavement Cards
• What Not to Say to Bereaved Parents
• Handling casual conversation in the grip of grief. How Are You?
• Support groups for the bereaved. A Hectic Social Life
• Should we talk with terminal children about death? Finding Natasha’s Last Letter to her Sister
• Return to ‘normality.’ Sunday at the Mall — Minus 1
• In Natasha’s Room …
• Why this mom is a little miffed with St. Jude hospital. Hey Jude, Don’t Forget the Other Heroes
• Living With the Loss of a Child: Update at 14 Weeks

Living with Grief:

• Reflections of a Bereaved Cancer Mom: Regrets and Gratitude
• Brain Tumor as a ‘Gift’? That’s Codswallop
• Message in a Lunchbox (Published in the Huffington Post and Brain, Child: The Magazine for Thinking Mothers)
• Why this Skeptic is Contemplating a Psychic Connection, Part I
• Reflections from a Meeting with a Psychic, Part II
• An 8-year-old Mourns a Much-Loved Sister
• A 13th Birthday Without the Birthday Girl
• Those Bolshie Bereaved Parents: Should We Just Shut Up and Be Grateful?
• Do Bereaved Parents Have Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder?
• Update 6 Months After Loss of Child: ‘You Will Always Know her Name’

News Stories:

• Shocking Pink: A Bereaved Brain Tumor Parent’s Perspective on Breast Cancer ‘Overawareness’
• Why the War Against Childhood Cancer is Far From Over (Published in the San Francisco Chronicle)
• Oh, No, Sheryl Crow, Not Cell Phones Again
• Kids With Cancer — Where’s the Outcry?
• ‘Rhoda’ vs. Ted Kennedy: Speaking up (or not) for Brain Cancer
• Would you Support a Children’s Cancer Nonprofit that Pays its CEO Half a Million?

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