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Pam Flores

Patient Blogger, wife, advocate, and caregiver

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How Often Should You Have a DXA Scan: New DXA Scan Recommendations

If you've read the recent recommendations from the January 22 edition of Life and Style from HealthyRockford.com, or the article in the New York Times, they tell us that we don't need to have bone density testing as often as some of us have been doing. But before you decide to hold off on your next scan we need to look at what the study... Read more Chevron

posted 01/27/2012, comments (9)|

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Chemo Barbie

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"Going through the speed bump of cancer in my life..."

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Lisa Kinney - Survivor Lisa KinneyUnlike many survivors, Lisa knew about Michelle's Place long before she was diagnosed because her mother Linda Hicks had already been volunteering for six years. Together Lisa and her mother had worked fundraisers including the Spring Fling and summer fashion show. When Lisa found a... Read more Chevron

posted 01/13/2012, comments (0)|

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Laura Zigman

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"You Should Apologize For Saying You Had Cancer (Because The NYTs Says It Probably Wasn't Cancer)"

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 Chevron

posted 12/14/2011, comments (3)|

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Laura A. Learn-Hack

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2 years later (GRAPHIC)

hi everyone its been awhile, i wish i could feel happy to come back here and i wish i could say im 100%. I finished chemo march 1, 2010 a banner day, cancer free. All i could think is its finally over, surgery, radiation,chemo. It was what they said "simple". I had survived the on going reactions to the drugs, the depression, bone aches. lets... Read more Chevron

posted 12/09/2011, comments (2)|

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Babygirl

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Botched tram flap surgery

In July 2010 I had a tram flap surgery to reconstruct after a mastectomy, after the 15 plus hour surgery I began having problems about a month later in September 2010 I found out that I had co5tracted a bacteria called micro bacterium which turned into an infection but no one knows how I got it. I had surgery again in October 2010 to clean... Read more Chevron

posted 12/07/2011, comments (2)|

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