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		<title>Commemorating Valentines Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Twenty-four years ago today I woke up in a hospital bed at the Hospital for Sick Children no longer intact.  During the wee hours of that Valentines Day morning back in 1988, I received a new, healthy liver in exchange for my old, diseased one.  In some ways I went into that surgery as one person [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.phoenixzine.org/blog/archives/965</link>
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		<title>Medical Terminology: Professional Sick Person</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lately, I have been finding Facebook to be more of a curse than a blessing.  People I would have had no contact with after elementary and high school are suddenly at my fingertips, pictures of their lives spread out before me.  Trips taken, romances had, marriages made, and children born.  Not necessarily all in that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.phoenixzine.org/blog/archives/883</link>
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		<title>The Sanctity of Organ Transplantation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In life, there exist things author Salman Rushdie would describe as &#8221;Processes Too Complicated To Explain (P2C2E).&#8221; Organ transplantation is one of those mysterious processes.  Besides being a medically advanced field that requires several years of study, it is also a field that has moral and philosophical implications. Human beings are not simply puzzles with interchangeable pieces.  There is something [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.phoenixzine.org/blog/archives/923</link>
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		<title>The Tolerator&#8217;s Manifesto</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to the language of illness, I hate the word accept. The concepts behind the word bother me.  If I accept my illness, then by definition I approve of it and consent to how it affects my life situation.  I am implying that I see my illness as suitable, and am willing to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.phoenixzine.org/blog/archives/791</link>
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		<title>Medical Terminology: The Biopsy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A biopsy is the removal of bodily tissue to diagnosis various medical conditions. Some biopsies are more invasive than others.  Over the course of my life I&#8217;ve had samples of my bone marrow, heart, liver, muscles and uterus removed from my body for further study. My first experience with biopsies was when I was six months old.  It was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.phoenixzine.org/blog/archives/690</link>
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		<title>Happy New Year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The year begins with a toast.  Granted, my glass is filled with Coca-Cola instead of wine, but the sentiment is the same.   I am surrounded by friends, my sister, and people I&#8217;ve only met this night. I am physically present in this moment, but my mind is taking a trip down memory lane.  Last year at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.phoenixzine.org/blog/archives/855</link>
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		<title>Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Christmas time again and this season of joy is driving me nuts. Today I went to what I consider to be my work Christmas party, which is actually the Christmas party for heart transplant recipients at TGH.  I put on a happy face, talked animatedly with my friends and ended up with three name tags instead of one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.phoenixzine.org/blog/archives/849</link>
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		<title>Sugar Monster</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s the 29th of October and I feel like this month will never end.  Over the course of these 29 days I&#8217;ve had two ventilation/profusion (VQ) scans, two sets of  blood cultures (one contaminated, one not), a  glomerular filtration rate (GFR) scan, an echocardigram, an abdominal ultrasound, a heart biopsy, and a superfluous antibiotic IV. The thing is, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.phoenixzine.org/blog/archives/834</link>
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		<title>Control Freak: Assessing Homeland Security</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My cytomegalovirus (CMV) has been under control for three months now and as a result I&#8217;ve been able to do things I haven&#8217;t done for a long time.  I went to my parents&#8217; cabin and stayed overnight, spent a week at my sister Holly&#8217;s house sharing a room with my five year-old niece Natalie, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.phoenixzine.org/blog/archives/802</link>
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		<title>Control Freak: Stopping to Smell the Roses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s a hot summer day and I am wearing a long, ruby-coloured dress.  My nails are painted and my hair is up, and I’m wearing more make-up than I have in years. But it’s a wedding, and I am a bridesmaid so it makes sense.  After a two year long engagement, my friends are finally [...]]]></description>
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