One Month Later A month has passed since my discharge. My early morning walks have continued. For someone like me that is unusual. I always

I was hospitalized for eleven days. For a stage 3 colorectal cancer surgery it may have been relatively short. Some friends and acquaintances had planned

It felt as if I were carefully relearning everything from the beginning. Not as knowledge, but through direct experience. A baby passes stool in a

In the end, there were many ways in which the private room helped. First, the matter of bowel movements. “Have you had a bowel movement?”

Experience I must have slept for two or three hours. But in the HCU after the surgery,I spent far more time looking at the clock.

“Are you feeling nervous?” A nurse speaks to me in front of the operating room. Maybe I was. Or maybe I wasn’t. Did I not