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Part 34: Blogging for Breast Cancer: Facing Another Surgery

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  I have been unable to sit and stare down a blank blog page for quite a while. The healing process wore me out, I suppose. There is usually an idea that hits me, calls to me, but for weeks, nothing. Then Facebook popped up a “memory” and I decided to use it as my sign from the Universe that it would be appropriate to re-visit. The “memory” was from two summers ago, during a heatwave. July, 2021. It was several seasons after a very difficult time of loss: first my mother, then my husband, who remains in a nursing … Continue reading →

Part 33: Blogging For Breast Cancer: While Waiting for The Visiting Nurse: Vulnerability

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  Monday, May 8, 2023 12:25 PM I have a wonderful visiting nurse who used to make me her first stop; she’d be here close to 9:00 am and then I could finally shower after she’d remove my bandages, and then put me back together. She was so wonderful that she received a promotion and is now working in an “office” doing training. Though she was kind enough to keep me on as a patient in the field, I have to wait much longer for her to arrive. Hours longer. And, after weekends, when she has bandaged me up on … Continue reading →

Part 30: Ported From Angel Network Posts: Blogging for Breast Cancer, Second Round

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  This should catch you up…I didn’t feel it was prudent to post while I was away in the hospital, so I posted on a private page. Thank you to all the people who joined that network, who commented and cheered me on.   February 19, 2023 at 3:47 PM A Note Of Thanks Not my regular blog as you can see, but I have included you in a group of people who are very dear to me, Some live near, some live far, but everyone is close. As you know, the most unexpected of events will be taking place: … Continue reading →

Part 289. Husband Journey & (Part 29. Cancer) I Heard it Through The Grapevine

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  The confluence of events continues: It is the countdown to a big surgery. I am not going to announce the date but it is coming up and my head just keeps spinning. In fact, I even had two lousy days of bed-ridden vertigo; it’s been a long time since I was on that ride and I was glad to get off. But stress, ahhh, good old stress will get you any which way it can. So let’s catch-up. My appointments are in order, I’ve had pre-surgery testing by the hospital. I’ve booked an agency for a 24/7 aide for … Continue reading →

Part 26. Cancer: The Grinch That Stole Christmas

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“It came without ribbons, it came without tags. It came without packages, boxes, or bags.” — The Grinch   Well, folks, it has been a strange week of angst and, probably, over-thinking. Here it is Christmas Day, 2022. A new year is coming, There is a movie playing of me in my multi-plex. In Theater One we have, “How The Grinch Stole Christmas.” In Theater Two there is a movie about my Christmases while growing up in Stuyvesant Town, in New York City. Technically, we didn’t celebrate Christmas but my mother played into the Santa Claus phenomenon. We had no chimney, … Continue reading →

📌❋Index to Blogging For Breast Cancer, updated 2022, 2023, 2024❋

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Blogging For Breast Cancer On October 1, 2004 I had a right mastectomy. The series was originally published in 2007, and has since been expanded; it seems to grow each year. It appeared on several blogging platforms and I have retained the original comments from people who visited from all over the world. Looking back at the original blogs gives me strength. I link to it annually to fundraise and inspire. The series is called Blogging for Breast Cancer. Cancers of the breast vary as do their treatments, from person to person. Sometimes we are faced with hard choices.  But … Continue reading →