Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

Crash Grief clouded my sight and I rear-ended the van bearing biopsies Bound for the cancer lab, one of them snipped From my wife. T...

Lorna of the luxurious brown hair. The first time I saw her. Not a streak of grey in it. I knew it wouldn't last because she's right...

Election day is Tuesday. I will vote and keep my eyes open for those who would try to prevent it. As an election judge and poll watcher, I n...

My sisters sent my wife Chris some Barnes & Noble gift cards to ease her path through chemotherapy. I went right to B&N Online and o...

My brother Tim the postman/father/grandfather is undergoing radiation treatments at the Mayo Clinic Hospital in Jacksonville, Fla. The docs ...

Nicole Cooley wrote a Facebook post about her friend, poet Anya Silver, who died this week. She included a poem by Silver that expresses ...

Happy May Day! While many of you bask in May sunshine, we are buried in snow. A moisture-laden three-day snowstorm covered my lawn and gar...

I am blogging this morning from the picnic table on our back porch. Eerily still and warm for the Ides of November. Cat snoozing on the chai...

Rep. Mary Throne, Democrat of Laramie County, posted this sign on Facebook. She caught some grief for it, support too. It's funny in w...

Sign seen at the Medicaid Expansion rally held Thursday in Cheyenne: "Cancer should not be a debt sentence." You could customi...

My year can be summed up in one word: heart. Cardiac may be a better term, as my year was filled with issues related to the parts of the hos...

Acute myeloid leukemia. The Big L My brother Dan has it. So does my retired coworker Marirose. You may know someone with AML. If you...

My sister Mary went to M.D, Anderson Cancer Center in Ho u ston to save our brother's life by donating stem cells for his bone marrow tr...

I said farewell yesterday to my pals at Cardiac Rehab. This is my third and final stage of rehab.  R has had multiple stents and an open h...

My Mom, Anna Marie Hett, as she became Anna Marie Shay on Feb. 18, 1950, in Denver. It's been a long time since I could wish my Mom ...

My brother Dan found a match. I wrote over the weekend about Dan’s search for a bone marrow donor. Millions of people are on the donor ...

Every four minutes, someone in the U.S. is diagnosed with a blood cancer like leukemia. A few months ago, my brother Dan in Florida was o...

Did you know that if you're older than 60, docs don't want your bone marrow? I found that out by perusing the web site for the Be...