yours truly ringing the bell and holding my certificate of cancer treatment completion. my journey started 18 months ago with SEVEN BIOPSIES, a partial mastectomy, chemo, radiation, physical therapy, immunotherapy all with one hospitalization for COVID19 ―that gave me LongCOVID and forced me to walk assisted by my sons and a cane―; two surgeries to put and take out a chemo port that gave me a horrible blood clot that landed me in the hospital, AGAIN, for 10 days and 3 months of blood thinners. it’s been 18 months of sleepless nights, pain, hair loss, and everything awful to come with cancer therapy. yet, it became one of the most positive health care experiences i have ever had due to the unending empathy and heart felt professionalism of the doctors, nurses, tech and hospital staff of Mt. Sinai in Chelsea and the former Beth-Israel at Union Square & 1st Avenue. i have had only horrible experiences with Mt Sinai (ironically, i was born at the OG hospital in East Harlem); but due to their cannibalization of Manhattan hospitals, the glory of hospitals like Beth-Israel and the Chelsea cancer clinic goes to them. it proves it is the workers, not boards or CEOs, who make good health care experiences possible. so thanks to the health care workers who are the real MVPs, may i say for ever and ever, fuck cancer.

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