{"id":2,"date":"2008-06-17T22:48:23","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T05:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2008-06-17T23:33:46","modified_gmt":"2008-06-18T06:33:46","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am a 30 year old Brooklynite who was diagnosed with Stage III Melanoma in February 2008. Today, I was meditating through my second session of chemotherapy, and came to the conclusion I should be blogging all of this experience.\u00c2\u00a0 I have been sending emails out to my close friends, but it all forms a coherent narrative.\u00c2\u00a0 A Melanarrative, so to speak.\u00c2\u00a0 It all came to me.\u00c2\u00a0 Meditating to Brian Eno’s Music For Airports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There have been a lot of changes in the last four months.\u00c2\u00a0 A lot.\u00c2\u00a0 Like meditating.\u00c2\u00a0 I only started that two weeks ago.\u00c2\u00a0 At the insistence of of the Psychiatrist when he proscribed me Klonopin<\/a>. He told me how aggressive he was about treating things with drugs, but three times told me I needed to learn how to meditate.<\/p>\n

I have been writing emails to my friends and family from the beginning.\u00c2\u00a0 I will continue to do that, and post much of that here.\u00c2\u00a0 I will also return to those emails and post them here as necessary.<\/p>\n

I am a creative person who does things kind of like this blog for a practice, but I feel strongly that this remain an anonymous endeavor.\u00c2\u00a0 Some of you reading this know who I am.\u00c2\u00a0 I put my trust in you to keep it anonymous.\u00c2\u00a0 Not because I am ashamed of what has happened to me.\u00c2\u00a0 But because I do not want that to become *who* I am.\u00c2\u00a0 It is something I have.\u00c2\u00a0 And experience I have had.\u00c2\u00a0 But not *who* I am.<\/p>\n

I am writing this because it is a way for me to work out my thoughts and feelings.\u00c2\u00a0 And maybe someone else out there will find it useful, or interesting, or similar, or different from their experience.<\/p>\n

I am writing this because I have already forgotten what it felt like the day before I found out my diagnosis.\u00c2\u00a0 I am writing this to preserve my own memory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am a 30 year old Brooklynite who was diagnosed with Stage III Melanoma in February 2008. Today, I was meditating through my second session of chemotherapy, and came to the conclusion I should be blogging all of this experience.\u00c2\u00a0 I have been sending emails out to my close friends, but it all forms a … Continue reading About<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}