by Maggie Van Duyn | Jun 16, 2018 | Breast Cancer, Cancer, Children
I have a guest writer this week. I asked this author if I could publish her piece of work and after balking, she demanded I double her allowance for payment and then gave me full publication rights. I’m publishing this poem because I think it’s important...
by Maggie Van Duyn | Feb 14, 2017 | anger, Cancer, Mastectomy, Metastatic Disease, Scanxiety
Dearest Amy Schumer, I’m coming to Montreal to see you on Friday, February 17th and I wanted to tell you that I’m going to need you to make an exceptionally funny show for me and the thousands of people who will also be attending your show. I mean, I know that you are...
by Maggie Van Duyn | Feb 3, 2017 | anger, Cancer, Fear
Vermont Gas Company came to inspect our furnace. The furnace looks great and is running well, but the gas guy noticed that we did not have a chimney liner. Like a normal home owner, I asked how much it would cost and he replied, “around $3,000.” Then I stopped acting...
by Maggie Van Duyn | Sep 7, 2016 | #maggiesbrightside, anger, Cancer, Metastatic Disease, Stage IV
Every time I get a scan, there is a piece of me that wants the doctor to say, “well actually, we were wrong. You don’t have cancer and if you just use activated charcoal for 3 months, you will be normal.” THAT would be the best news. But instead, at my last scan I got...
by Maggie Van Duyn | Aug 8, 2016 | Breast Cancer, Cancer, Diagnosis, Metastatic Disease, Stage IV
I’ve been in a funk lately. I have this pit in my stomach that just won’t go away. At first I thought it was because I published a blog post about racism and my support of the Black Lives Matter movement. The post was live for about 4 days and invoked a...
by Maggie Van Duyn | Jul 17, 2016 | Cancer, Diagnosis, Environmental Factors
Background: I work for the Department for Children and Families and we have been, until April of this year, temporarily located at the Global Foundries/IBM Site. This week we got this email: All, Please read this important message from Commissioner Chen! To staff who...
