Breast Cancer Awareness

I’ve been told by two separate doctors in the past few weeks that I’m considered “high-risk” in regard to cancer recurrence. High-strung, maybe… In the meantime, I’m going to jet off to my writing conference (okay, I’m taking the car). Hope I stay awake long enough to learn something.  

When I went Tuesday to have blood drawn and the port flushed for the first time since my last Herceptin treatment in December, I thought I’d be in and out in ten minutes. Oh no; that would have been too easy. Our insurance plan recently got switched to a different carrier. And so the fun […]

After speaking to 100 women back in December, a woman came up to me afterward and said (at least six times) that Lupron–which she took for her own cancer–makes a person… mentally unstable. Either my “motivational speech” was really bad and she was trying to make me feel better… “Boy, this chick is off her […]

If you had to choose between two years of feeling great and five years of feeling like horse-puckey, which would you choose?  

I am done with Herceptin. I’m going to celebrate all week by: 1. Going out to lunch with a friend tomorrow. 2. Watching 3 basketball games after lunch. 3. Sleeping in Tuesday morning. 4. Attending a Christmas concert Tuesday night. 5. Holding my book launch Wednesday night. 6. Jamming with the music band on Thursday […]

I finally got the results of my breast cancer gene test. No Mutation Detected. My ovaries were happy to hear that. (If I had tested positive for this gene, I would have had a much higher risk of ovarian cancer.) Then I “zapped” them with a Lupron shot. Now, they’re no longer speaking to me. […]

I’ve seen it spelled both ways… all I know is, I hope I don’t have one.  

I had another appointment with the oncologist this morning in which I promptly complained about my 2-month (since taking Femara) libido problem. He asked why I wasn’t doing Lupron yet. I told him, “My brain is incapable of making any more decisions.” I asked him to remind me what Lupron would do to my body. […]