by
Laura Zigman on Breast Cancer
Wednesday, December 14 2011
There was a piece recently in the New York Times about cancer. This, in and of itself, isn't unusual, since there are many pieces in the New York Times about cancer. What was unusual was what the piece suggested:
Cancer should be renamed. Some cancers aren't really cancer, even though they're still called... Read more
I've been feeling terrible lately about not writing any Shareposts. Until I realized the reason why I haven't been writing any Shareposts:
I've been too busy to think about breast cancer.
Who would have thought the day would ever come that I'd get up, go about my business, and not think about my reconstructed body for most... Read more
A few weeks ago, I was invited to a party. It wasn't a birthday party, or an anniversary party, or a graduation party. It wasn't an engagement party, a baby shower party, a congratulations-on-getting-your-book-published party, or a retirement party. It wasn't the normal kind of occasion that inspires people to gather, with... Read more
A few weeks ago my friend who is the publisher of a new division of Random House sent me an amazing book she's publishing: PRETTY IS WHAT CHANGES: Impossible Choices, the Breast Cancer Gene, and How I Defied my Destiny by Jessica Queller.
I opened the book and took a quick look at it, thinking I'd put it aside until I... Read more
Everyone should have a Wendy. My Wendy -- Wendy Hurwitz -- is one of those amazing friends who is pathologically helpful. But in a good way. Always there for the emergency school pick-up and playdate (luckily we have boys the same age at the same school, which is how we met). Always there with the information about the field trip you forgot... Read more
