My sister miscarried her first pregnancy years and years ago. You captured the emotions so well. Both Dee's pain at losing a child and everyone else's graceless inability to say or do the right thing.

Hoshi having cancer just aches. Both because cancer treatment just sucks, even when it works and because it means that Felix's post-New Caprica 'happy time' was still full of crap like that. It works for the story, but still just ouch. I think my favorite line is, "I'll do my chemo, get better, have my life back for a few years, and then do it again." It really sounds like someone who's done two or three rounds of this.