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Positively Speaking: When it s OK not to be OK
Gary Moore
I learned a valuable lesson this week. I traveled to the University of Iowa Hospital for my monthly meeting with my oncologist and digestive health medical team. For those of you unaware, I’m fighting stage 4 stomach cancer. It was to be a quick in-and-out meeting and I would be on my way home by 3 p.m. Instead, my digestive health professional looked at me for thirty seconds and said, “I’m admitting you.”
I didn’t know what to say. “Wait,” was the only thing I could force out.
Positively Speaking: The crossing from poor country to here
Gary Moore
I always try to make sure my column has a point to it. I want to share a life lesson and encourage readers to live an optimistic and positive life. As for this column, I really don’t know what the point is other than I’m missing my mom and dad now … and decided to write about them. I hope you’ll allow me just this once.
May I?
My dad grew up in the coal mining area of deep southern Illinois. If you asked my dad what nationality we were, he’d usually laugh, then respond, “Hillbilly.” My mom was from Sands Springs, Oklahoma. When asked the same question, Mom would say, “Okie.”