Comments on: Winners Walk of Hope https://www.spikeharris.com/somethingevil/2006/08/winners-walk-of-hope/ Spike's Fight with Ovarian Cancer Thu, 06 Nov 2014 09:11:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.41 By: Martha https://www.spikeharris.com/somethingevil/2006/08/winners-walk-of-hope/comment-page-1/#comment-787 Mon, 04 Sep 2006 22:38:56 +0000 http://www.spikeharris.com/somethingevil/2006/08/winners-walk-of-hope/#comment-787 Dear Spike,
Thanks for this blog! Thank you for this reminder! I have a favor to ask of you and your listeners. I have had OVCA (diagnosed 2003, stage 1c, borderline tumours, rad hyst and chemo, ok today as far as I know…) and am writing an essay called “On Not Imagining Ovarian Cancer.” It’s about the disconnect between early symptoms that we DO HAVE and our difficulty in recognizing them and going to the doctor. I think this is connected to the fact that we aren’t ever invited to think about, imagine, picture, sense, palpate, or whatever, our ovaries, much less consider ovarian cancer. Most people can’t name 10 women who died of ovca. (I think I can do 8, offhand, and I’m particularly interested!) Aside from Wit and one great Thirty-something set of episodes–and last season on Grey’s Anatomy–when do we get stories of ovca? I’d love to hear your experiences of imagining– or, as in my case, NOT imagining–Ovarian cancer, before you were diagnosed. Thanks!!! off-line is great, on-line if others are interested.

Martha Stoddard Holmes

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