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Martha Rasche

Apr 23, 2018
5 min

Joys on the Journey

— This is the presentation I gave at tonight's Celebrate Today dinner, Memorial Hospital's quarterly celebration for cancer survivors —...

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Martha Rasche

Mar 16, 2018
2 min

Through It All, the Humor

In 2015 I spent this week of March in an Indianapolis hospital, where I underwent a biopsy that revealed I had non-Hodgkin lymphoma....

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Martha Rasche

Jan 25, 2016
4 min

Cancer repercussions contribute to anger

What makes you angry? Financial concerns? Illness? Mass shootings? You are not alone. Are you angrier today than you were a year ago? If...

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Martha Rasche

Dec 31, 2015
1 min

At Year's End

Cancer came and went this year, but some repercussions linger. Recent images dictate that I see a neurosurgeon and an orthopedist. At the...

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Martha Rasche

Sep 13, 2015
1 min

A Sense of Humor

I don't like to complain. I try not to bear grudges. I know that lots of people have it worse than I do. Etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. I...

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Martha Rasche

Jul 22, 2015
2 min

Thank You

Thank You to: Those who cleaned my litterbox. Those who mowed my grass and trimmed my weeds. Those who brought me meals. Those who...

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Martha Rasche

Jul 2, 2015
2 min

Dealing with Insurance

As it happened, when I was transferred from Jasper to an Indianapolis hospital in March, I was transferred to a hospital outside of my...

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Martha Rasche

Jun 19, 2015
4 min

Some Ugly Truths

I had my fifth chemotherapy treatment Wednesday. Every three weeks, I receive regular chemo and then, because of the location of my...

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Martha Rasche

May 16, 2015
2 min

A New Perspective

In January 1996, I took three days off from my job as a reporter for the South Bend Tribune to interview my father about his life. It was...

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Martha Rasche

Apr 13, 2015
1 min

I am not my hair

I am not my hair. I am not my hair. I am not my hair. ... Which is a good thing because my hair was cut and discarded yesterday. With or...

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Martha Rasche

Apr 13, 2015
1 min

Together again

After weeks of separation, the thumb and little finger of my left hand were able to touch each other last week on their own accord,...

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By Martha Rasche

Apr 13, 2015
7 min

The column I didn't anticipate writing: I have cancer

Much has happened in my life since I last wrote a post here two months ago. More quickly than you might relize I left the “a” out of...

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