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Potential Voice Loss: A Side Effect Of New Chemo
Making peace with this as a SPOKEN word poet
My oncologist knows what I do for a living. I figured that out a month ago as she was telling me about the potential side effects of a new chemotherapy I’ve since begun. “One of them can be voice loss,” she said gently. “I know why this would be particularly scary for you, Andrea.”
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Jeannie Ewing
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Andrea, when I read your words today, I thought of my favorite excerpt from Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet:
"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart
and try to love the questions themselves,
like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue.
Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now.
Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it,
live along some distant day into the answer."
You are a breathing testimony to what it means to live the questions. Thank you for being a witness of how to show up authentically every day. ❤️
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Lizzy Co
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Thank you for sharing how you move through hard things. Your writing brings me comfort in times when few things can, and I’m so grateful you exist. Congratulations on the success of your new treatment!