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
Three weeks ago I had some follow up plastic surgery to the double TRAM flap reconstructive surgery I had almost a year and a half ago: nipple reconstruction procedure, which I could have had four months after my original surgery. When my surgeon suggested I schedule it last March I did, but then I cancelled it. I rescheduled it again for... Read more
In my last post, I listed 5 ways I felt I'd "failed" during my cancer experience -- which means, since I'm pretty much the same as most women, that most women probably feel like they've failed in similar ways. I'm going to continue, and I invite you all to add your "failures" to the list: 6. Not Leaving The... Read more
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