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CANCER Archives - Cindy DeBoer https://cindydeboer.com/category/cancer/ Thu, 13 Apr 2023 20:56:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 https://i0.wp.com/cindydeboer.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/cindydeboericon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 CANCER Archives - Cindy DeBoer https://cindydeboer.com/category/cancer/ 32 32 184530663 Leaky Breasts and Other Hot Messes https://cindydeboer.com/2023/04/13/leaky-breasts-and-other-hot-messes/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=leaky-breasts-and-other-hot-messes https://cindydeboer.com/2023/04/13/leaky-breasts-and-other-hot-messes/#comments Thu, 13 Apr 2023 20:56:02 +0000 https://cindydeboer.com/?p=4332 Recently, while at work at the psychiatric hospital, I caught a glimpse of myself in a patient’s bathroom mirror and noticed a large wet spot on my t-shirt just below my left breast. It was an odd location for a spill, but I chalked it up to my clumsiness and threw on a hoodie to […]

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]]> https://cindydeboer.com/2023/04/13/leaky-breasts-and-other-hot-messes/feed/ 2 4332 Same Kind of Wounds as Me https://cindydeboer.com/2022/04/07/same-kind-of-wounds-as-me/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=same-kind-of-wounds-as-me https://cindydeboer.com/2022/04/07/same-kind-of-wounds-as-me/#comments Thu, 07 Apr 2022 17:07:13 +0000 https://cindydeboer.com/?p=4302 I noticed her and those tell-tale marks on her face from far across the room. At the first break of our writer’s conference, I ran over to her, breathless with anticipation. “Hey, I don’t mean to be weird or anything, but I notice that you have nasal cannula indentations on your cheeks, and I know […]

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]]> https://cindydeboer.com/2022/04/07/same-kind-of-wounds-as-me/feed/ 20 4302 Ode To A Lumpy Body https://cindydeboer.com/2022/02/18/ode-to-a-lumpy-body/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ode-to-a-lumpy-body https://cindydeboer.com/2022/02/18/ode-to-a-lumpy-body/#comments Fri, 18 Feb 2022 16:33:30 +0000 https://cindydeboer.com/?p=4290 Hairy legs and sun-burnt nose When at the beach, anything goes. Unbrushed teeth and happy-hour drinks This much I know: my breath stinks. Fish for dinner plus a fruity potion Diet be damned, I'm at the ocean. Sand in my bed, and in my salt-fried hair, Sir, what is the time? Wait. Why do I […]

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]]> https://cindydeboer.com/2022/02/18/ode-to-a-lumpy-body/feed/ 16 4290 What Does God Smell Like? https://cindydeboer.com/2018/02/20/what-does-god-smell-like/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-does-god-smell-like https://cindydeboer.com/2018/02/20/what-does-god-smell-like/#comments Tue, 20 Feb 2018 23:08:08 +0000 http://cindydeboer.com/?p=812 It’s been six weeks since Heidi died. I have spent innumerable hours thinking about her in heaven. I like Revelation 7:9-17 best for a descriptive image of what she does with all her time. Without any cancer, suffering, work, eating, sleeping, etc. – just imagine all the time we’ll have for praising God in heaven! […]

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]]> https://cindydeboer.com/2018/02/20/what-does-god-smell-like/feed/ 4 812 A Lament for Heidi https://cindydeboer.com/2018/01/08/the-smell-of-death-a-lament-for-heidi/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-smell-of-death-a-lament-for-heidi https://cindydeboer.com/2018/01/08/the-smell-of-death-a-lament-for-heidi/#comments Mon, 08 Jan 2018 20:20:58 +0000 http://cindydeboer.com/?p=783 After a long 24 hour bedside vigil, I was finally able to come home, change my clothes and shower. But it’s not over. I’ll go back to her bedside shortly, and breathe in her precious smell until she smells like heaven. I know how this goes. My youngest sister will be the fourth beloved, precious […]

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]]> https://cindydeboer.com/2018/01/08/the-smell-of-death-a-lament-for-heidi/feed/ 91 783 Screaming into Nothingness (when God disappears) https://cindydeboer.com/2017/02/17/screaming-into-nothingness-when-god-disappears/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=screaming-into-nothingness-when-god-disappears https://cindydeboer.com/2017/02/17/screaming-into-nothingness-when-god-disappears/#comments Fri, 17 Feb 2017 20:18:59 +0000 http://cindydeboer.com/?p=659 Christmas morning. As our girls tore into their stockings hung by the chimney with care, the phone rang. The phone call that changed everything. From now on, life will be defined as either “before” the call, or “after” the call. My 45 yr. old sister had been rushed to the hospital after waking up with right-sided […]

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