I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately, about the changes wrought in my life by being diagnosed with malignant melanoma, a potentially-deadly skin cancer. However, writing about it has turned out to be less easy. Perhaps this is because when I write, I really have to do some thinking, whereas when I’m “just thinking about it”, I can easily flit off in my mind to something else when I don’t want to think too much about “it.”

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I have the unfortunate privilege of adding a new category to my blog. On December 31, 2003, at 7:52 a.m., a surgeon called to let me know that an innocuous mole of which I’d grown tired had turned out not to be so innocuous after all.

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