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Your story, in six words

Posted by Rubyslippers @triciaot, Jun 23 9:29am

Are you familiar with the Six Word Story?
“A six-word story is an entire story told in six words. It is a short narrative that can have all of the emotional themes of longer stories—from funny to dramatic, sad to scary. It can be poetic or straightforward.”

Legend has it that Ernest Hemingway was once challenged to write a story in only six words. Others gave their own spin into the six-word novel - a personal twist to describe a life in exactly six words, sometimes called these Six-Word Memoirs.
https://www.sixwordmemoirs.com/
“While these quick stories don’t have the classic beginning, middle, and end of a traditional storyline, they have a subject and verb that give the reader a sense of what’s happened and a bit of conflict.”
https://lib.pstcc.edu/sixwordstory#:~:text=The%20key%20to%20writing%20your,to%20tell%20a%20whole%20story.&text=In%20just%20six%20little%20words,be%20in%20what's%20left%20unsaid.
6 Word Story Examples
http://www.sixwordstories.net/
Here are a few of my favorites, including living through disease treatment:

Lost myself in my own labyrinth
Taking control of my own boat
Discover manage weep repeat heal survive
Disbelief anxiety fortitude bravery live on
Multitudes stand together at bell ringing
What came of it was life

Do you have a Six Word Story to share?

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Colleen Young, Connect Director | @colleenyoung | Nov 1 11:18am
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@thomaspmccoy

Hello Colleen,
I thought I had already replied but it doesn't look like I did. sorry.
I was diagnosed February 11th with prostate, metastatic to bone, spleen and lymph nodes. Upon asking my local St Cloud doctor back in March what my prognosis was, she said because I was so healthy(many of my doctors through this all have said I am the healthiest person they have ever seen), it gave the cancer a 'perfect breeding ground' and was spreading like wildfire and so she said she would give me at absolute most 2 years to live. I called BS and asked if she would be offended if I tried to get into the Mayo. She said no, she would even get me a reference.
Within a week I had a call from the Mayo. When I got in the Mayo, they exclaimed "Wow, we did not realize anyone could have so much cancer". Well, my recipe for survival: PxO. Positive Outlook. I have told myself from day 1 it was not my time. Thankfully, the awesome Dr Sartor got me back on track and a lot of days, I feel pretty much better than I have ever felt. I will go back into the Mayo November 18th and 19th for some tests, scans and consulatations. I like to think the test results will be very positive but there are still occasional days where I know things are all not completely back to normal, but I think that is probably unrelated things I am dealing with.
I am currently in the works of openig up a bicycle shop in my hometown of Sauk Centre. I was down in Rochester a couple weeks ago with my first bike 'restoration', a Bianchi 21 speed road bike. I was in Rochester a couple weeks ago and got a picture of it with the statue of the guys that made it possible(the Mayo brothers statue). I want to get a revision of the picture, probably next Spring, now, with Dr Sartor in the picture, too. The bike will be a little different as I am currently converting it to a blackout bike(everything will be black)and I am also converting it from a 21 speed to a 36 speed.
Tom

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@thomaspmccoy, I invite you to join the guys in the Prostate Cancer group here: https://connect.mayoclinic.org/group/prostate-cancer/

You'll find comraderie, similar stories and quite a few cycling enthusiatists too.

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heisenberg34 | @heisenberg34 | 2 days ago

Where is the empathy, pain doctors?

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sillyblone | @sillyblone | 2 days ago
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@heisenberg34

Where is the empathy, pain doctors?

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I think empathy died with the Pandemic! There are still kind souls everywhere. Hope it works out!

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Zebra | @californiazebra | 2 days ago

Smiles are contagious. Start an epidemic!

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heisenberg34 | @heisenberg34 | 2 days ago
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@sillyblone

I think empathy died with the Pandemic! There are still kind souls everywhere. Hope it works out!

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Thanks! I had a pain doc back in 2016-17 who was very kind and empathetic. Unfortunately, he retired. Still looking for a new one.

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