breast cancer | breast cancer
May.04.2010
Wow. Nothing like a lump to focus my mind. Forget the pages I just sent to my agent, forget my son’s virus, forget ordering the seersucker pants I have an ad for beside my computer. I have a lump.
I found it in my sleep. My right hand curved around my left breast, my brain woke with a WTF? And I...
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Mar.25.2010
There is the nurse in her white uniform standing beside the bed. So snowy white that it hurts my eyes to look at her. Funny how this might sound but I can't help but notice that the nurse has a great figure. Well most nurses do. Must be all the running around through the warren of corridors, up and...
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Jan.13.2010
For over two decades, while encouraging and teaching hundreds of people to write "Mother-Memoir" and writing my how-to book, Give the Gift of Story, TellTale Souls' Essential Guide to Tap Memory & Write Memoir in Five Acts, a snippet from a poem by Suzanne Lipsett never ceases to echo...
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Jan.09.2010
As I approached day number six of a full on "chemotherapy detox" process in the peaceful isolation of the Tucson desert, I was reminded how noisy and all consuming the mind is.
The parallels of healing disease, addiction and racism had never penetrated my brain before receiving a...
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Dec.31.2009
Today is the last day of my 40s, and I’ll never be this young again. It’s the end of a decade that has included my happiest moments as well as my most pain-filled ones. Standing on the threshold of my 50th birthday, along with everyone else who is looking ahead as well as behind, I’m pausing to...
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Dec.02.2009
The toxic chemical BPA, or Bisphenol A is lurking in your hard plastic water bottles, baby sippy cups, dental sealants and in your canned food. BPA acts like estrogen and increases the risk of breast cancer and early puberty in women. It can cause reproductive damage and may lead to prostate and...
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Oct.14.2009
It's challenging to be a Breath Cancer survivor during Breast Cancer Awareness Month. What's Breath Cancer? It's the cancer that attacks the organ behind the breast, the organ we cannot live without.
Its proper name is Lung Cancer. But I prefer to call it Breath Cancer, because it literally and...
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Sep.22.2009
I have a friend--I'll call her Jennie--who was diagnosed eight months ago with breast cancer. I learned this very recently. Jennie and I are friends whose worlds overlap only along a very particular seam: we meet and see each other thanks to our dogs, who compete in canine agility.
In the sport of...
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Sep.16.2009
We left Georgia in the rain this morning, and Gerald had rough driving off and on throughout the day as rain stopped and started. Sometimes it only sprinkled, and sometimes the downpour and fog in the mountains made visibility quite a strain. We are glad to be back at Woodsong, reviewing the mail,...
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Jun.24.2009
Now that I tweet on Twitter and put updates on Facebook, I'm not nearly as good about blogging... (my publicist has found the coolest application that allows me to do all those sites through one place...)
But I've started a project that's worthy of a blog... Karen Althage, a breast cancer survivor...
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