Alicia Parlette

Alicia has a new entry up -- it's posted tonight for Friday's paper.

www.sfgate.com/alicia

 

Another good one - she really has a gift for storytelling.

I was talking to my brother about this (just became a surgical resident), and I asked him why they can't cut the damn thing out right now. He told me because of the location and size of it - removing it might cause them to have to amputate her leg. But he said it's theoretically possible to shrink the tumor with drugs to prepare it for surgery. I hope that's the strategy.

 

God her writing is so shitty [/SportsJournalists.com'scynicalbastardcrew]

 

Update dated July 28 ...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/07/28/DDG84K54L814.DTL

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That's damn good news.

 

Alicia has a new entry up. If you go to the main page (www.sfgate.com/alicia), there's a link to it, but it has the wrong date (should be today's, but instead says 7/11). Anyway, here's the link directly to the new piece:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/08/11/ALICIA.TMP

 

All I got is wow. Again ...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/08/11/DDGAVKCKO728.DTL

 

Appears to be the same story as the post above.

 

Jesus, that was mindbending.

 

There's a new posting from Alicia:

www.sfgate.com/alicia

 

She has a blog now:

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/03/09/DDGLROA6C342.DTL

This will be my last piece in The Chronicle, at least for a while. I'm going on disability -- maybe for a few months, maybe forever -- because I just can't work often enough to justify being a full-fledged employee of Hearst Newspapers (or of anything, for that matter).

It's not because I'm suddenly deteriorating; I just can't keep up with work. Since I have the opportunity to put work on the shelf in order to get more aggressive about prolonging my life, I'm going to take it.

But I'm not disappearing. Writing this series has been everything to me these past two years. It has been my comfort object and my therapy; my emotional protection and my emotional pipeline; my loving retreat and my connection to the world.

So that connection will continue. While my work won't be appearing in The Chronicle -- or any other print publication -- I will be writing a blog, Alicia's Story, as a member of the public, at sfgate.com/community/blogs. I look forward to emptying my life onto the page, digital though it may be, and I thank readers in advance for following me into the blogosphere.

 

I know what you mean. I knew some would have that reaction when they saw it again, but as you said ... it is indeed worth reading her series.