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Continue reading →: My Personal St. Patrick’s Day Massacre: My Cancer Journey20 YEARS AGO TODAY, St. Patrick’s Day, 2006, was the night I hit the anger stage—among the 5 stages of breast cancer grief. By then, a month after finding my lump, I knew I was facing a double mastectomy. But on March 17, it finally landed: Everything had to go.…
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Continue reading →: 20 Years of Breast Cancer Awareness: A Personal JourneyEXACTLY 20 YEARS AGO TODAY, in the languid embrace of my guy on a lazy afternoon while watching the 2006 Olympic men’s downhill, he suddenly jumped off the sofa (and me) and pointed at my breast. “What is THAT??? Have you had that checked out?” I touched where he was…
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Continue reading →: Really, I’m not sick. I’m just battling a genetic twist of fate.I’m not sick. Not even just a little bit … So, why would I do this? In a few hours I’ll be lying on an operating table having a “partial hysterectomy.” And I’m doing it because I can. Or, at least, because should. I think. The intention is to remove…
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Continue reading →: The PointIn times of strife or frustration, and sometimes just on a regular, boring day of Arizona same-ness, my son asks “what’s the point?” Maybe all kids are saying that today … I bought him “The Goldfinch,” because it’s an ongoing theme, as it is in “Infinite Jest” (or so I’m…
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Continue reading →: I am Not a Cancer SurvivorWe cancer patients, for the rest of our lives, are always on the lookout for the next threat. We monitor ourselves, fight for others, and we maintain a dim awareness that we must be prepared for the next potential battle.
Hi Friends!
IT’S THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF MY BREAST CANCER JOURNEY! And I’m celebrating by memorializing my experience in a series of posts while I (hopefully) fundraise for the American Cancer Society’s Making Strides Against Breast Cancer.
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