Excerpt
In the Beginning
October 1997
I think I need to start at the beginning of my whole health crisis and catch you up to the day I finally got diagnosed. I say "finally" because it took forever—more than two years and eight doctors—before one of them decided to give me a D&C, which stands for "dilatation and curettage," whatever the hell that is. Basically, it's when they scrape tissue from the uterus for biopsy. In the end, this was the only test I needed to find my cancer. Because I was atypical for contracting uterine cancer, at each turn in the road I kept being steered in the wrong direction.
Just when my life had moved into a new place, I began to experience symptoms. When I say "moved into a new place," I mean a place without Peter, my childhood sweetheart and husband for almost twenty years.
One of the hardest things, if not the hardest thing, I've ever done was leaving that man. For me it was like walking through fire, because I was never one to leave anything. I had trouble parting with our old '78 Buick, so leaving the person I'd been with since I was fifteen seemed impo ... read full excerpt from Cancer Schmancer ebook
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You'll need a Palm OS or PocketPC/Windows CE Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), or a Windows or Macintosh desktop (or laptop) PC.
Palm OS Hardware:
Palm OS Software:
PocketPC/Windows CE Hardware:
PocketPC/Windows CE Software:
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The Palm Reader can read doc files. A doc file is a type of PDA file that ends in either .pdb or .prc. These text files have been specifically packaged for use on a PDA. Doc format is pretty much a standard for PDA documents, and the latest version of the Palm Reader can view them.
Yes, the Palm Reader is compatible with the following PocketPCs: Hewlett-Packard Jornada420, 430, 430se, 540, 545, 547, 548, 680, 690, 720, and 820 CompaqiPAQ H3600 series, iPAQ H3100 series and Aero 1500 series CasioCassiopeia E115, E-125 and EM-500 series.
Yes, the Palm Reader is compatible with the following PocketPCs:
