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Breast MRI
About this time last year I posted my experience with my first breast MRI (see ‘Happy Dancing‘ in Archives or click on the link). Whenever I learn something new I like to share it so here we go with this year’s experience. I am not at all a fan of recreational drugs, but the well…
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Have the conversation.
Two years ago this week I had a routine mammogram that showed I needed a needle biopsy. Less than a week later I had flown 1500km to have the biopsy as quickly as possible, and a few days later, back at home, May 31st, I was told I had breast cancer. Last evening we saw…
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Daffodil Day
I have just learned how precise the dose of radiation is that I receive. It is so precise that it is not timed in seconds. There is an exact dosage predetermined in the ‘machine’ and it is released by electricity. Because electricity supply varies slightly, rather than the dosage being measured in seconds, it is…
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So Much to Enjoy!
My darling girl is with me today. She arrived yesterday afternoon and we talked 90 miles an hour to catch up on lots of things while picking up a few grocery items and going to the PO. And then we talked some more! We decided that a nice dinner at the Noodle House on Mitchell…
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Radiation
I haven’t written much about the actual radiation treatment itself. It’s an odd thing, which may be why it isn’t often described. Five days a week, I walk into the Oncology Unit and hand over my ‘treatment schedule’ to the receptionist, which she updates weekly so that I know a week in advance when my…
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Treatment or transformation?
Whenever I see someone I have not seen for a while, since my diagnosis or treatment started, and they ask me how I’m doing, it is a chance for me to do a quick mental run through… how AM I doing? Today I visited with a good friend from Alice who was here for other…
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What Cancer Cannot Do
I have received a card from a total stranger to me. She is a neighbor of Mom and Dad’s and knows about my situation. She has made the card using a ‘stamp’ she found and this is what it says: What Cancer Cannot Do Cancer is so limited… It cannot cripple Love It cannot shatter…
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A day in my life
I was really in the moment during my walk this morning, noticing several people who I pass every single morning at the same point of the walk. A young man with a back pack who only ever stares straight ahead and moves so woodenly and precisely it’s as if he is a robot. A woman…
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A long day in August
Today started very early at 4.32am when I woke up to cooking smells from the kitchen just across the hallway. It is the second time this has happened. I’m just amazed that anyone feels the need to be up quite that early, let alone eating, as none of us has to be on a bus…
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Four Star Lunch
(This is one of a number of posts written during my time in medical accommodation, while receiving radiation treatment for breast cancer. I was far from home and family at the time) Today there were no buses in my life. While waiting this morning, I got the offer of riding in a car with one…
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