This post tells the story about the day I found out I am BRCA2 positive. When you think about the major tests you’ve taken in your life, which ones come to mind? Is it your driver’s license test(s), your ACT/SAT tests, a big test you aced, or failed, in high school or college? Or is …
Breast cancer
I guess this week is “blogging reflection week” for me. Anniversaries, even blogging anniversaries, require reflection don’t they? I hope you’ll bear with me and keep reading. After my last post where I went on more than a bit about how grateful I am for the whole new world that has opened up to me …
Have you had breast cancer or do you know someone who has? Do you consider yourself to be a bit outspoken or perhaps wish you were a bit more outspoken? Have you ever been a caretaker to someone with a serious illness, or do you know someone who has been? Are you concerned about the …
Recently, I stumbled upon a blog post with this title, “Breast Reconstruction Makes Breast Cancer Patients Whole Again After Mastectomy.” What? This particular choice of words immediately made me bristle. In fact, I found them down right irritating. Why? It’s the definitive nature of the statement that annoys, no offends me. Breast reconstruction makes breast …
When I heard the news recently that Betty Ford had passed away, the first thought that came into my mind was, I wonder if she passed away from breast cancer. Recurrence is never far from my mind; recurrence for me or anyone else for that matter, even Betty Ford. After learning she did not, and …