Summary
The author of The Vagina Monologues describes being diagnosed and treated for uterine cancer and how her illness forced her to reconnect with her own body and gave her a better understanding of the resilience of humans. Full description
- Divided
- The beginning of the end, or In your liver
- Dr. Deb, or Congocancer
- Somnolence
- Cancer town
- Dr. Handsome
- What we don't know going into surgery
- This is where you will cross the Uji River
- Two questions
- Uterus = hysteria
- Falling, or Congo stigmata
- Lu
- Here's what's gone
- The stoma
- How'd I get it?
- Circumambulating
- Ice chips
- Patient
- The rupture/the Gulf spill
- Becoming someone else
- Beware of getting the best
- Stages/5.2b
- Infusion suite
- Arts and crafts
- The room with a tree
- A buzz cut
- Getting port
- The chemo isn't for you
- Tara, Kali, and Sue
- Crowd chemo
- The obstruction, or How tree saved me
- I was that girl who was supposed to be dead, or How pot saved me later
- Riding the lion
- Chemo day five
- On the couch next to me
- I love your hair, or The last time I saw my mother
- It was a beach, I think
- Shit
- Rada
- Death and Tami Taylor
- A burning meditation on love
- My mother dies
- De-ported
- Live by the vagina, die by the vagina
- Farting for Cindy
- It wasn't a foreboding
- Congo incontinent
- Leaking
- She will live
- Sue
- Joy
- Mother
- Second wind.