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
My post the other day about how it seems women can't win when it comes to deciding on a treatment plan - that we're essentially "failing" at this very early stage of our unplanned journey through Cancerland because we either pick surgery that is overkill (mastectomies over lumpectomies) or underkill (lumpectomies over... Read more
I read with great interest yesterday's front page Washington Post article about the increase in women opting for double mastectomies when lumpectomies might suffice. And I'm writing this post because I am one of those women who made a similar choice -- to have a double mastectomy when a single mastectomy may have sufficed and because there... Read more
Everyone has their own special thing that gets them through their surgical recovery. For some people it's God. And family. And friends. For other's it's the Food Channel. And a stack of "People" magazines. Despite the fact that I'm not big on organized religion, it was all of those things for me. Plus one more... Read more
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