TABLE OF CONTENTS

TABLE OF CONTENTS
FOREWoRD
Heather Tosteson
Slow Dancing with Mortality 2
ILLNESS AND GRACE
Wising Up Press
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Wising Up ISBN-13: 978-0-9796552-2-7
Pamela Z. Daum
A Matter of Perspective
15
Jane Levin
Complexity
22
Sunipa Basu
Gulmohur
25
Robert C. Knox
The Five A.M. Inquisitor 36
Darlene Montonaro
The Crane
48
Mark Barkawitz
Better Boobs
53
Joan Potter
In Chemo World
61
Kimberly K. Farrar
“Big C. . . little c. . .”
68
Darlene Montonaro
Ultrasound
79
Heart Music
A Small Inheritance
Cinda Thompson
Type I: Room 210
84
Carol V. Davis
This Illness, This Childhood
92
Illness Mary V. Davidson
The Birthmark
94
Michael Onofrey
Rain
97
Adele Steiner
Fever Healing
Teleology
Merry Speece
Sick
Lucille Lang Day
Intensive Care
MRI Scan
The Hot Tub
Terry Sanville
Blues from the Stepdown Ward
Patricia Smith Ranzoni
Husband Cut My Hair
Another Long: 26-29
Another Long: 43
Marion Deutsche Cohen
On Reading To Sick People
March 6, 1998
One Woman Show
Calling a Spade a Spade Phyllis Langton
Mission Accomplished
Mary-Lane Kamberg
Artist’s Eye
Susan R. Norton
Watching Mother Go
Heather Tosteson
Once My Mother Knew My Name
Intelligence of Loss
Susan Hodara
After the Accident
Susi Gregg Fowler
After the Stroke
John Holbrook
Envision
Sara Lippmann
The Dying Tradition
Marian Kaplun Shapiro
Memorial Service for a Quaker
104
Merry Speece
Sweet Face of the Khmer Woman
108
TERROR AND TRANSFORMATION
113
118
123
128
132
138
139
141
146
160
161
164
177
Greggory Moore
Dirty, Pinkish Sky
Cathryn Cofell
Womb, Belly, Gut, Cave
Anxiety Attack Christina Gombar
In the Company of Ghosts
Andrea Rosenhaft
Sharp Edges
Heather Tosteson
Skin Deep
Hannah Thomassen
Phone Call from My Schizophrenic Son
James H. Coffman
Main Event
Aelena Thompson
Another Attempt
You See
Ross West
Crazy Diamond Shine
Laura R. Sommers
The Momster
Claudette Mork Sigg
That Too
Lori Anderson Moseman
Beauty Secret
Denise Miller
Unfinished Ghost Story
The Thing I Improvise
Adele Steiner
Quick Kisses
Elizabeth di Grazia
Family Reunion
180
184
186
191
205
216
220
221
223
227
238
241
242
245
250
252
Rebecca Payne
Week of the Hyacinths Blooming
Carol V. Davis
Fear
Fear II
Wendy Brown
Rage
Marci Greer Jaffer
The Wall
Victoria Elizabeth
April 19th
Privacy
Secrets Heather Tosteson
Faith
Mary C. O’Malley
Boy in the Water
Joel B. Peckham, Jr.
Ruins
Kathleen M. Heideman
The Transfiguration Box
A Light Like Fireflies
260
265
268
271
277
281
298
300
317
AFTERWORD
Heather Tosteson
Writing Ourselves Back into the Flow of Life
322
AUTHORS
335
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
340
EDITORS
341
FOREWORD