Wave your fork if you’re fed up with food fads, pyramids, myths, scandals, and all those often-silly health claims and additives getting stamped on products like Captain Crunch. Good grief. Who can we trust any more? Unusually sensitive to the side effects of preventative meds like Arimidex, Fosamax, and statins, I depend on diet and exercise... Read more
It’s been tempting in this very public breast cancer blog to appear a la Kathryn Hepburn—cheerful or light-hearted, or at least feisty and brave—but I think it’s important to know that I sometimes hit overload and can barely cope. It’s easy to cover this in a blog, as few who read it actually know me: Instead of writing about myself, I... Read more
This week’s my birthday week, and although I’ve passed the age when I’ll divulge which, it’s turning out to be the best one ever. I’m up to one of the scary marker birthdays, which, to my great surprise, is being celebrated twice!The second party is not until tomorrow, but the first was sprung during our January meeting by the four... Read more
Last week I was wowed by a TV news report of an experimental saliva test for breast cancer that could be administered by—of all unexpected members of my medical support team— my dentist. As a breast cancer survivor, I’m as jumpy as a cat in a car about a recurrence (my scars always feel scarily lumpy to me), so I’m especially alert to... Read more
Because I’m a self-supporting writer and artist, until I was diagnosed with breast cancer, I couldn’t afford medical tests that weren’t absolutely necessary. Unlucky as my diagnosis was, however, I did luck out with an excellent breast and cervical cancer program that paid for, among other things, my labs.That’s when my primary physician... Read more
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