Merry Maladies

The Merry Maladies were a collection of e-mails that Mary sent to friends and family about her progress on the cancer front, plus detailed lists of whatever food she was eating at the time because, as she put it, “the unexamined cuisine isn’t worth consuming. Or something like that.”

You can browse through the Maladies starting in November of 2005 when her breast cancer made its appearance for the third time up through the final e-mails sent by her and her family in 2010.

Third Times a Charm (November 25, 2005)
Muga Maya (November 28, 2005)
Perspective (November 30, 2005)
So Far So Chemo (December 2, 2005)
Two Down (December 10, 2005)
Follicle Follies (December 16, 2005)
Comfort & Joy (December 20, 2005)
Finally! Food Porn! (December 30, 2005)
Never Bury the Lead (January 5, 2006)
Bragging Rights (Januar 15, 2006)
Back Story (January 16, 2006)
She’s a Lumberjack (January 24, 2006)
Low News Is Good News (February 4, 2006)
I Want To Be In That Number (February 20, 2006)
All On Mardi Gras Day (March 2, 2006)
Half-Time Show (March 26, 2006)
Ashes and Snow (March 31, 2006)
Super Triple Blasto (April 22, 2006)
Something Else (April 22, 2006)
Blogging & Bacon (April 28, 2006)
Bruuuuce… (May 5, 2006)
A Fine How-D’Ya-Do (May 11, 2006)
Of Chemo & Calories (May 17, 2006)
Twinkle Toes (May 31, 2006)
Random Round-up (June 15, 2006)
Summer Vacation (July 11, 2006)
Better Living Through Chemo-stry (July 13, 2006)
Asymmetry (July 22, 2006)
A Little Catch Up (August 3, 2006)
What We Ate In New Orleans (August 10, 2006)
Eat My Tumor Marker Dust (August 10, 2006)
So I Understand… (August 14, 2006)
Port Authority (August 16, 2006)
Bragging Rights II (September 16, 2006)
A Clean, Well Lighted Place (September 17, 2006)
Slouching Towards Completion (September 29, 2006)
Vaccine Variations (October 14, 2006)
Substance of Things Hoped For (October 27, 2006)
We Now Return To Our Regular Programming (November 2, 2006)
Some Things To Do When Not On Chemo (November 17, 2006)
All Things Must Pass (December 2, 2006)
Christmas Comes But Twice a Year (February 2, 2007)
Postscript and Serendipity (February 18, 2007)
Jeepers (March 9, 2007)
Liminal States (March 22, 2007)
Though Charles Fort Would Not Even Blink An Eye (April 9, 2007)
For Those Keeping Track at Home… (April 11, 2007)
Best of the Fest (May 7, 2007)
Fest Follow Up (May 11, 2007)
Pourin on the Food P**n (May 12, 2007)
If Nothing Else, Gunther Should Have Done the Trick (May 14, 2007)
Salt and Pepper (June 8, 2007
Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty (June 10, 2007)
Cambridge and Calm (June 11, 2007)
Shameless Self Promotional Announcement (June 12, 2007)
Gluttony (July 11, 2007)
Novel Possibilities (July 12, 2007)
Markers and More (August 3, 2007)
What’s Up, Doc? (August 6, 2007)
Set Your DVRs/VCRs and RSS (August 15, 2007)
Hit the Road, Jack (August 28, 2007)

Neither Here Nor There (September 25, 2007)
Win Some, Win Some (October 25, 2007)
Bragging Rights III (October 28, 2007)
Porkography (November 14, 2007)
Grumpy (November 30, 2007)
Seasoned Greetings (December 24, 2007)
Reruns and Some Relief (December 28, 2007)
Flight Into Egypt (February 3, 2008)
Numbers Game (February 8, 2008)
Medium Marker Movement (March 3, 2008)
He Was A Livery Stable Owner (March 18, 2008)
And The Winner Is….Plan B! (March 19, 2008)
Springtime in Paris (April 11, 2008)
Marking Time (April 17, 2008)
Come Hell or High Water (May 17, 2008)
2, 4, 6, 8, Tell Us Everything You Ate! (May 21, 2008)
If Nothing Else, This Would Have Gotten Me Out of Jury Duty (May 22, 2008)
Oy Vey (May 30, 2008)
With a Lot of Help from My Friends…and Nurses (June 5, 2008)
She’s So Fine My Six O Nine (June 14, 2008)
Didn’t Pat Benatar Have a Song Called Anxiety? (July 7, 2008)
Batting a Thousand… (July 25, 2008)
Indolent Cancer (July 30, 2008)
Numerology Has To Count For Something (August 8, 2008)
What’s German for Metaphor? (September 11, 2008)
Stating the Obvious (October 1, 2008)
Maybe Here, Maybe There (October 10, 2008)
Anniversary (October 29, 2008)
Simple/Sublime (November 11, 2008)
Clearly, Yet Another Consequence of the Obama Victory (November 17, 2008)
Oh, for the love of… (December 12, 2008)
Let Nothing You Dismay (December 23, 2008)
Passage to India (January 23, 2009)
A Little More India (January 29, 2009)
Groggy Good News (February 12, 2009)
Spoke Too Soon (March 16, 2009)
A Salute (March 21, 2009)
Take Another Piece of My Liver Now, Baby (March 22, 2009)
Caloric Tension Reliever (April 2, 2009)
This One Goes to Eleven (April 10, 2009)
Quick Update Between Bites (April 24, 2009)
Wing of Life (May 8, 2009)
Mount Baldy (June 4, 2009)
Novel Delights (June 9, 2009)
I Lost My Hair For This? (June 23, 2009)
A Favor (June 24, 2009)
Books Do Furnish A Room (June 30, 2009)
Whoops! Corrections and More Plugs (June 30, 2009)
Godspeed (July 11, 2009)
In Which We Continue To Put Our Faith in Chemicals (July 16, 2009)
Caloric and Musical Break (August 2, 2009)
Let Us Now Praise Famous Caregivers (August 11, 2009)
“We Fought Over Who Was Going To Give You The Good News”… (August 27, 2009)
Gag Me In The Morning (September 23, 2009)
Pills and Prayers (September 28, 2009)
Sisyphus (November 6, 2009)
As Mike Nichols Used to Say… (November 13, 2009)
Stay Me, Oh Comfort Me (January 6, 2010)
Fluid Reduction (January 26, 2010)
Off To Mardi Gras (February 16, 2010)
So Much Love (February 19, 2010)