came          
         one        
         right          
         after         
         another
 
learned me
          new hardship         
          new words        
          new sounds        
          new meanings  

carved        
          blue-red bruised, scored landscape:
 
microdochectomy                                lumpectomy                                                                                 
                                lymphadenectomy                       

bilateral salpingo oophorectomy (is that a flower?)
                             
                                total hysterectomy  

and appendectomy (just had to get on the bandwagon!)  

stemmed          
slow-drip          
tumor-shedding          
death