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Cancer Diary: Family Celebrates Thanksgiving with Sadness

Denis Ledoux — Thu, 23 Nov 2017 11:10:34 +0000

The following cancer diary entries are from Martha Blowen and me, while celebrating Thanksgiving with the family after her diagnosis. (more…)

Turning a Journal into a Memoir

Denis Ledoux — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 10:10:59 +0000

I have been slowly revising my latest book My Eye Fell Into the Soup. This book is the first of a two-book set depicting the two years that Martha and I lived with her cancer illness. I have described some of the writing process elsewhere. There was a time when writing / organizing / revising […]

Breast Cancer Diary—How “My Eye Fell Into the Soup” was Launched

Denis Ledoux — Mon, 09 Oct 2017 11:00:22 +0000

Martha’s breast cancer diary was published as My Eye Fell Into the Soup and is a cancer journal/memoir of Martha Blowen’s experience with cancer. (more…)

A Cancer Diagnosis

Denis Ledoux — Sun, 08 Oct 2017 11:00:45 +0000

Martha Blowen, my partner in life and in work, died on August 18, 2008, from metastasized breast cancer. The following is from collated excerpts of journals we both kept at the time. (Before she passed away, she gave me permission to share her entries.) The memoir is called My Eye Fell Into the Soup, after […]

Will We Find Cancer There, Too?

Denis Ledoux — Sat, 07 Oct 2017 10:49:30 +0000

DL: Martha Blowen, my partner in life and in work, died on August 18, 2008, from metastasized breast cancer. The following is from collated excerpts of journals we both kept at the time. (Before she passed away, she gave me permission to share her entries.) The memoir is called My Eye Fell Into the Soup, […]

Coping With Chemo—Again

Denis Ledoux — Fri, 06 Oct 2017 10:50:41 +0000

The Family Gathers Around Martha

Denis Ledoux — Thu, 05 Oct 2017 10:03:15 +0000

Our First Evening Coping with Cancer

Denis Ledoux — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 11:38:13 +0000

The Pleura Is Full of Fluid

Denis Ledoux — Tue, 03 Oct 2017 10:20:17 +0000

Draining the Cancer from the Pleura

Denis Ledoux — Mon, 02 Oct 2017 10:26:51 +0000