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Well hello there fine friends! Before I write anything else I want to share with all who have not yet heard that the pathology from my lymph nodes and left breast came back clear! They also got good clean margins around the tumor I did have so at this moment there is no cancer in … Continue reading
Alright so my double mastectomy happened on Monday. We got to the hospital at about 8 am and went promptly to nuclear medicine so they could make my sentinal lymph node visible by gieger counter (!) From there it was right into surgery. I am told it took about 5 hours but went very well. … Continue reading
La Vie En Rose For some reason, every time I hear this song I picture myself sitting on a beautiful green hillside gentle breeze is blowing. Off somewhere in the near distance I see the growing mushroom cloud of an a-bomb. I hear this song and I imagine what that moment must feel like. That … Continue reading
Well dear readers, I haven’t posted anything recently largely because there has been nothing to report that’s any fun. The anxiety of pending surgery, the stupid kidney infection that tried it’s damnedest to ruin a really wonderful hot spring weekend, wrapping up work, advance directive blah blah blah…. So thought for a change I’d post … Continue reading
Well the date to dance with the knives has been set. I will be going in for my bilateral mastectomy with reconstruction on October 21st. When I first thought about how this was all going to play out I imagined myself getting the perky Baywatch fake boobs out of this crappy deal. While I wouldn’t … Continue reading
OK so you may have noticed, dear readers, that I have shied away from talking about how I feel. I am warning you now that this may be a tough one to read as I have a feeling that it will be tough to write. If at any time you need to ‘poodle’ out you … Continue reading
Diagnosed August 30th. Tentative surgery date is the first week of October. Four weeks is forever if the decision you have to make is what to have for breakfast but four weeks to take on, digest and decide on what to do with this cancer is a blink! I am both grateful for and exhausted … Continue reading
So this last week has been the biggest learning curve. We have been handed a boatload of information and resources and the understanding that the decisions that we make soon will impact the rest of my life. No pressure there huh? Since this week has been all about information gathering I will attempt to regurgitate … Continue reading
Seems to be that I am in the opening scenes of a new story to tell. This first chapter will be titled ‘Well fuck, it’s breast cancer.’ I want to start off this blog by first posting a version of the e-mail that I sent out to friends and family so to some of you … Continue reading
Well fuck, it's breast cancer 
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