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award-winning author of While Galileo Preys

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The Tyranny of Numbers

June 23, 2011 by Joshua Corin 9 Comments

 

Today my mother turns 62.  Her cancer turns 3.

 

Numbers are so haughty.  Numbers are the aristocracy of time and they know it.  “Without us, how can you measure a life?” they say.  “Without us, how can you identify change?”

 

My mother has stage 4 ovarian cancer. This means that the tumors in her body are greater than 2 cm. in diameter. Tumors, like children, receive grades, from 0-3, in rising scale of malignancy.  My mother, always the overachiever, carries around inside of her, along her pelvis and liver and pancreas and lymph nodes, a veritable symposium of Grade 3 tumors.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: cancer, chemotherapy, doxil, mothers, numbers, ovarian cancer, sons

I am moved

February 5, 2011 by Joshua Corin Leave a Comment

And by that, I mean literally. Yesterday I moved four floors up in my apartment complex. I went from a one-bedroom to a two-bedroom. That’s right, boys and girls, your humble author now has a roommate. And it’s his mother.

It’s no secret to longtime readers of this blog (all five of you?) that my mother has been battling stage-four ovarian cancer. She is doing very well right now (esp. given that she’s three years into her diagnosis) but for practical reasons, she can’t live alone. And so she and I now occupy a lovely 1500 sq. foot flat with a terrific view of a sodden courtyard.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: before cain strikes, cancer, joshua corin, Lauren Fortgang, mira books, moving, while galileo preys

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