In a cancer survivor's life, there are no simple aches and pains. A headache is a potential brain tumor -- sore joints bone cancer -- stomach ache liver cancer. These dramatic leaps to immediate and certain dire conclusion are not the workings of a rational mind. Cancer tends to leave this sticky free-floating inner residue of terror behind.Trying to talk yourself down from the internal tree of irrationality is a process each cancer survivor must do time and time again.
Only Miriam Engelberg, author of book and blog Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person, could take this affliction of cancer-altered reasoning and make it as funny as she does with all things cancer-related. While Miriam was away on vacation she got an attack of gas. Her new Cartoon of the Week tells the cartoonist's pen-and-ink tale.
She just makes me feel better about being me in sharing the who of who she is.
