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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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