breast cancer | breast cancer
Mar.27.2013
I've been a bit quiet for a few days because along with disaproving of the vast quantity of my possessions the nice realtor lady thought that I ought to get a structural engineer to look at the crack in one of my retaining walls, my house is built into a hill, more about that in a jiffy, and the...
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Feb.05.2013
SOMETHING TO HOLD ONTOPosted on February 5, 2013 by Linda LangeI shivered a little in the flimsy gown, although the room was warm. I was waiting for the results of my mammogram. My second in two weeks. The breast imaging center had called to say there was a suspicious area on my film. They needed...
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Nov.22.2012
There is a saying—“That which does not kill us makes us stronger”—which is neither true nor helpful.
In the last few years I was diagnosed with colon cancer, which, thankfully, was caught in time. After treatment, I recovered and went back to work, and on I went.
Then my wife Kathi was diagnosed...
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May.18.2012
Yes, in nipple news, a 39 year old woman, mother of three, was posting about coping with her breast cancer in a Foreign Service blog supported by the State Department. She mentioned nipples.
Nipples, of course, are Americans' greatest threat. Who doesn't remember the dark day in American history...
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Apr.14.2012
I grew up in the 50s. While there may have been some tantalizing things back then, rock and roll, cool cars, fun filled dances, the hula hoop and the misleading feeling that all was right with the world, empowerment for women was not one of them. My mother’s motto regarding my father was: “Even...
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Mar.13.2012
A few days ago, I was told something that was so insulting, so unbelievably insensitive -- that my ego literally popped. The insult was vile on it's own, but the idea that a person would say something so potentially damaging to another was beyond me. Somehow, I immediately knew that it wasn't...
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Feb.02.2012
Hi All, I am sure many of you are equally as disgusted by the recent decision by the Susan G Komen for the Cure foundation's decision to de-fund Planned Parenthood's cancer screening and anti cancer work. It is disgusting and shameless. As a cancer survivor myself and someone living with the...
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Dec.11.2011
We've crunched the numbers. The oncologist, my fifty-seventh-birthday gift, his face serious but reassuring, conveys the effect without using the jargon. "Over a ten-year period, you have a 19% chance to..."
Reoffend. Repeat. Reoccur. As a novelist equipped with a detachment for events, I'm a...
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Oct.25.2011
Please take a moment to read a piece very near and dear to me. It tells the tale of two friends who drift apart and come back together just in time. Thanks to Red Room and Gina for offering me this opportunity.
"I'm not sure why you stopped talking to me. It happened slowly, like rust. There was...
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Oct.24.2011
There is no cancer in my family, no cancer of any kind, except for mine. I am now 57 and it's been 10 years since my diagnosis.
For the 10 years before this happened I had annual mammograms and each of those years were accompanied by false positive results, bringing me back for a repeat mammogram...
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