breast cancer | breast cancer
Oct.11.2011
As I drove down 95 from Washington DC marveling at how well traffic was moving it dawned on me that this was a federal holiday and many employees had the day off – hence light traffic. The beautiful foliage captured my attention; the leaves were just beginning to turn for autumn. These...
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Oct.10.2011
It’s National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and I have valuable information for you to pass on to your daughters, granddaughters, nieces, and other young women you love. Don’t wait until you reach the at-risk age to prepare your bodies to fight breast cancer. There are things you can...
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Oct.08.2011
Fasten your lifejackets…a portfolio of my work is now live in Drunken Boat 14. Edgy and brassy? For grownups? Well, yes it is... http://www.drunkenboat.com/db14/5sex/buck. Many thanks to Ravi Shankar and his able editors for the inclusion.
For the complete art...
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Oct.05.2011
Ten years ago, when I was told that I was going to have to lose my right breast to cancer, my first thought was, "At least it's not my arm." Losing a body part is -- to say the least -- emotionally devastating, but to know that your only other option is death, well, that scenario is enough of a...
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Oct.01.2011
Today is October 1st, the start of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. It is also the month in which my mother died of breast cancer 11 years ago, and undoubtedly marks the anniversary for countless others --- wives, sisters, mothers and friends --- who were lost to the disease.
I wrote...
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Aug.30.2011
Any woman who has lived through the decade that encompasses years 40 through 50 can attest to the fact that this may just be the hardest time of her life. These are the years when we're still so attached to the physical package, and as we watch ourselves begin to show signs of age -- it simply...
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Jul.27.2011
I got my annual mammogram, and the results came back clean. I said a little prayer for you in that space of cleanliness, the letter still in my hand, thinking about the staples in your chest and the year of treatment to come, about the birthright of our friendship, babies sharing a meal next...
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Jun.15.2011
Thanks to Redroom (yay!) I have a piece up at The Huffington Post. Here's the link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/red-room/breast-cancer-walk_b_875664.html
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Apr.18.2011
It is almost time to do one thing I’ve dreaded doing for many years. I have to have my annual smashogram a.k.a. mammogram. Ladies, yes, the process of flattening of two body parts that were never meant to do so between almost always cold vise plates is undeniably painful. I, for one, believe the...
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Apr.06.2011
While I realize the terrible disaster in Japan is on everyone's mind, I recently suffered a personal disaster...and survived.
Perhaps you noticed my absence from social networking the past year or so. I took a year off writing (and everything else in my life) when I was diagnosed with breast...
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