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  • Holiday.

    What does that word mean to me? My patients battle daily with cancer and the therapies I impose on them. Coming in for their chemotherapy; tolerating the side-effects. They grow weaker and more tired as the cycles trudge on. It’s like doing 100 miles on a bicycle ride. The first 25 miles has me saying…

    momilhem

    October 23, 2013
    Patient Care, Perspectives
    cancer, Chemotherapy, Iowa, Patient, Tumors
  • Orphaned.

    Everyone in the room is quiet.  I feel like the old man leaning forward looking through my glasses understanding the situation but not fully. As an observer  I have seen it, can describe it but I am not experiencing it myself. No one in the room can appreciate that struggle. Three situations have made me…

    momilhem

    October 16, 2013
    Melanoma and Sarcoma, Patient Care, Perspectives
    cancer, Disease, Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center, Iowa, Iowa City, Medical Oncology, Mo Milhem, Patient, University of Iowa, University of Iowa Health Care
  • How?

    “You got me this far” he told me. And then making it more difficult “I trust you” he added. Perhaps these should be easy words to hear and I should be proud that I was able to do something and be commended. But it’s the other words that linger “I trust you” he repeated. As…

    momilhem

    October 9, 2013
    Melanoma and Sarcoma, Patient Care, Perspectives
    cancer, Doctor Mo, Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center, Iowa, Medical Oncology, Medicine, Mo Milhem, Mount Everest, Patient, trust, University of Iowa, University of Iowa Health Care
  • Muffled.

    This is a difficult blog for many reasons that I will not divulge. But I will take you to where I am.  Immerse your head under water at a poolside. Around the pool you can hear the loudness of all the people around you. You dip your head to dive beneath the water. As you…

    momilhem

    October 9, 2013
    Patient Care, Perspectives
  • Firecrackers.

    Firecrackers. I am talking about the small ones, that make the loudest noise. You know the ones, you light the fuse and then “BAM”. They are loud. Startling in fact. Pleasing. Frightening. As a child I use to love to startle people. I do the same now but I call it illumination. It is possibly…

    momilhem

    October 9, 2013
    Melanoma and Sarcoma, Patient Care, Perspectives
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