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Night Owl Poetry – Dorinda Duclos

~ "The silence of the night awakens my soul"

Night Owl Poetry – Dorinda Duclos

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You Look Fine

19 Tuesday Jan 2016

Posted by Dorinda Duclos in Poems, Poetry

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addiction, arthritis, cancer, chronic disease, depression, diabetis, dorindaduclos.com, fibromyalgia, health, misunderstanding, MS, Multiple Sclerosis, Night Owl Poetry, poetry, silent battles, Sjogren's Syndrome, TM, Transverse Myelitis, transversemyelitis.org, you look fine

I wrote this piece in March 2014.  I’m sharing again because just recently, my daughter experienced this.  Please be kind to others, you don’t know what battles they are facing…..

girl-worried-1215261_960_720
You will never see
the silent pain, or the broken souls
who question why
Or how or what
they did to deserve this
enormous disruption of their lives.

Independency taken
away in the blink of an eye
and never an understanding
It becomes a constant battle
to make those around them perceive
the reality.

The glares of the accusing
unaware, of the horror within
the courageous body before them
They poke and tease
with disbeliefs and “you look fine”s
without an inkling or thought
as to what they suggest.

But the strong do not give up, do not stop
the fight against a villain
who showed unwelcomed one day
They struggle and confront the world
that looks upon them unsure, skeptical
Uncertain

They are brave and fierce people
who will not let this malady define them
who will not let the constant depression
sadden the brightest days
Who choose, instead, to be an inspiration
to others who fight a similar battle
with compassion, caring…hope

 

Dedicated to those who fight a silent battle, whatever it may be. God bless all of you.

 

©2014 Dorinda Duclos  All Rights Reserved

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You Look Fine

02 Sunday Mar 2014

Posted by Dorinda Duclos in Life, Poems, Poetry

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addiction, arthritis, cancer, chronic disease, depression, diabetis, dorindaduclos.com, fibromyalgia, health, misunderstanding, MS, Multiple Sclerosis, Night Owl Poetry, poetry, silent battles, TM, Transverse Myelitis, transversemyelitis.org, you look fine

girl-worried-1215261_960_720You will never see
the silent pain, or the broken souls
who question why
Or how or what
they did to deserve this
enormous disruption of their lives.

Independency taken
away in the blink of an eye
and never an understanding
It becomes a constant battle
to make those around them perceive
the reality.

The glares of the accusing
unaware, of the horror within
the courageous body before them
They poke and tease
with disbeliefs and “you look fine”s
without an inkling or thought
as to what they suggest.

But the strong do not give up, do not stop
the fight against a villain
who showed unwelcomed one day
They struggle and confront the world
that looks upon them unsure, skeptical
Uncertain

They are brave and fierce people
who will not let this malady define them
who will not let the constant depression
sadden the brightest days
Who choose, instead, to be an inspiration
to others who fight a similar battle
with compassion, caring…hope

Dedicated to those who fight a silent battle, whatever it may be.  God bless all of you.

©2014 Dorinda Duclos  All Rights Reserved

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Kicking Cancer’s Ass

22 Wednesday Jan 2014

Posted by Dorinda Duclos in Life

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It was mid-December 1989. We had a two and a half year old and a baby girl on the way, due in less than two months. I have a lump, he said. Where, I asked. On the side of my neck, he answered. Swollen gland, lymph node, mono? Off to Dr. R. Could be a cyst. Let’s treat it with antibiotics for a week and recheck. No change. Need to see an ENT. So off to Dr. M. we go. Cat scan & biopsy, he said. Second opinion, I said. Enter Dr. D. With a simple touch he told us it had to come out. The lump was in the salivary gland and the only way to remove it was to remove the entire gland. This wasn’t uncommon and the majority of the time, the lump was benign.  Can we wait until after the baby is born? Yes…

March 1990, surgery is scheduled. It takes longer than expected. Finally, out of recovery, I can hear him yelling from down the hall…”Where’s my ear?”. The nurses ask me to keep talking to him, comfort him, that he was okay. They assure him that I am by his side.  The doctor had to make an incision from the back of the ear to the front chin area and because of it, the entire left side was numb. His ear was fine, he just couldn’t feel it.

Monthly doctor visits for three months and still no word. It was when we walked in on that day in June and the doctor asked his nurse to take our son into the other room. We knew. It was cancer. It took three months to determine what kind. Tissue samples were sent to the Army labs in Washington, DC, because they couldn’t identify it here. It was a cynic cell carcinoma. And they got it all, contained in the gland. No chemo, no radiation. Just constant visits to the doctor, which eventually turned to bi-yearly and finally, yearly. No recurrence. By the grace of God and constant prayers, he kicked it.

Fast forward twenty years. I have a lump, he said. Oh God, where, I said. In my chest, in the breast area, he said. Off to Dr. L. Order a mammogram. YES! Men can get breast cancer, too! Test done. A clogged gland…nothing to worry about. But worry we did because history has a habit of repeating itself. But God isn’t ready for him yet, he’s not done down here.  He has now been cancer free for 24 years.

I’m happy to say that Neil is still a pain in my ass.  And I have no doubt that he will continue to be one for a very long time. And I thank God every day for that.

Men and women, if you feel something, don’t wait.  Get yourself checked out immediately!

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