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Martha Rasche
Apr 23, 20185 min read
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, 20182 min read
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, 20164 min read
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, 20151 min read
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, 20151 min read
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, 20152 min read
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, 20152 min read
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, 20154 min read
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, 20152 min read
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, 20151 min read
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, 20151 min read
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, 20157 min read
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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