by Maggie Bruehl | Apr 8, 2024 | Cancer
In my book, Suspended: Living with Dying, I talk a lot about not only how we are handling our life-altering diagnosis but also about how others around us are. Just as we are unique, they also are, and no two situations are exactly alike. For example, I recently got an...
by Maggie Bruehl | Mar 18, 2024 | Cancer
Sure, I had been sick most of January and February. And he had just gotten out of a week at the hospital that I hadn’t known about. I guess I hadn’t seen him since before Christmas. But I hardly recognized him. He was a shadow of the man he had been. I...
by Maggie Bruehl | Mar 4, 2024 | Cancer
I recently received an email from a friend who has a 1 ½ inch tumor in the back of her brain. They think it is benign but still want to do surgery. She has opted to wait and see if it grows since the recovery time would be substantial and the quality of life not...
by Maggie Bruehl | Feb 2, 2024 | News
Three years ago, the word Covid brought fear and dread. It sounded like a death sentence. Our family did everything we could to avoid it. However, now that things are more lax and medical solutions are available, we have become accustomed to it being a part of our...
by Maggie Bruehl | Jan 9, 2024 | Cancer
Remember when a cold was just a cold? You know, the sore throat, runny nose, the hacking cough, the slight fever kind of cold? That was before 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic, which sent everyone across the world into a tizzy. All of a sudden, a cold was not just a...