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Jana Rosenblatt

posted 09/26/2007, comment (1)

Chemo Style and Chemo Chicks: Meet Jana Rosenblatt

From the moment that I understood I was going to need chemotherapy and I would soon lose my hair I knew that I wanted to tattoo my head... without any pain and only temporarily. An artist friend of mine did all the research and came up with a recipe for henna, and together we designed the look I kept for the 18 months that I was in treatments.... Read more Chevron

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posted 09/20/2007, comment (1)

Living an Unplanned Life

Up here in northern New England, September is a month with a changeable personality. Early September is a reflection of August: the symphony of summer is still at its crescendo, a cacophony of bright colors set against a lush green background. Flowers bloom, tomatoes ripen, the sidewalks in town are crowded with tourists in splashy tropical... Read more Chevron

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posted 09/17/2007, comments (5)

Are YOU Happy? Can Getting Cancer Make You Happy?

Is it Elizabeth Edwards, Robin Roberts, Tony Snow, and other public figures fighting their personal cancer battles–in the national spotlight–that has provoked the recent spate of cancer articles in the national media? Maybe it’s the Lance Armstrong Foundation, Komen for the Cure®, and a posse of other less visible (but no... Read more Chevron

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Donna Johnson

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posted 08/27/2007, comments (3)

SIX Year Breast Cancer Suvivor

I have been through the Breast Cancer Fight. Removal of right breast plus 12 lymph nodes. There were times when I did'nt want to go back for the chemo treatment's. My daughter would keep reminding that I had come this far and that i would continuing my treatments. That my children needed me as well as my grandchildren.There were times I... Read more Chevron

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Leslie

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posted 08/27/2007, comments (2)

Why Me? Why not?

With Breast Cancer Comics by Dash Shaw I was diagnosed with Stage One breast cancer in May 2006. I was showering one day and felt a lump that was not there the day before. Ok, I was scared. I regret that I blew off getting my mammogram in 2005. I went to the E.R. and was told it felt like and therefore was probably a cyst--not to... Read more Chevron

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