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23. The Nipplemania Newsletter, 2021 Edition (Blogging for Breast Cancer)#3: The Yin and Yang of “Benign”

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Yom Kippur, 2021 May we be inscribed in the book of life for another year. And may we, dear lord, be healthy. How do I say this, let me count the ways. My husband is failing, in a nursing home. My son announced his engagement and the happy couple are searching for an unusual venue: I am trying to be happy. I hide from Covid and from myself on a daily basis. I live in a body that I don’t know how to make sense of. Day by day. Yesterday morning I went back to sleep after being up for … Continue reading →

22. The Nipplemania Newsletter, 2021 Edition (Blogging for Breast Cancer)#2: Good News

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The Nipplemania Newsletter was established in 2004: I had just retired from thirty-three years of teaching only to find, the day before my retirement party, that I had breast cancer. It’s a long story and it begins here. I just wanted to say that I had a double lumpectomy on August 26th. Actually, what my surgeon calls it is a “lumpectomy and a mini-lumpectomy.” See the previous post for details here I am forever in the debt of my friends: M, who took me for the “scout” implant which marked the areas with radar markers for the doctor to track … Continue reading →

256.→Husband Journey: Resilience

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📌An excellent article about resilience is in The New York Times Several weeks have past and it is time to come back to words.I had been trying to divert myself from life via an on-line digital photography class. Sometimes images are more soothing than verbal ideations. Sometimes we have to be, well, non-verbal. But don’t worry, I yak to friends on the phone in my effort to make sense of my world, as well as your world. For weeks I had Robert on one side of my brain: that is ongoing. However, I didn’t see him for two weeks in … Continue reading →

The Nipplemania Newsletter, 2021 Edition (Blogging for Breast Cancer)

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Folks, it’s the return of your favorite publication!     Here we are again blogging for breast cancer, making an informational blog about all the stuff women, and sometimes men, can be faced with. Let me fill you in about what has been going on over the last few months. I will reconstruct the timeline. My insurance pays for a breast MRI every three years; it is part of the breast cancer protocol and for years nothing has shown up. We women get mammograms, sonograms and each view they produce can reveal something new. With smartphones and apps we are … Continue reading →