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Dear Benefactor, Another reason I have not gone hiking recently is because I have been doing mundane things like going to the dentist. On Friday, I arrived at my teeth-cleaning appointment promptly at 8:00. I sat in the chair, waiting for the procedure to start. I admit, getting your teeth cleaned is better than having […]

Dear Benefactor, I cannot believe that the last time I wrote you was December 14, 2016. It’s not like I’ve been sitting around on my couch all winter and spring watching Netflix every day (and thereby not having the time to write you). Admittedly, I haven’t been spending my time hiking either. I’ve been gardening […]

In my last post, I talked about trying to make a decision about whether or not to pursue finishing my breast reconstruction and having the surgeon build me a nipple. After Thanksgiving, I didn’t have much time to think about this endeavor, either. First, there was the Christmas program at church that Ken and I […]

In my last three blog posts, I have been discussing all the hemming and hawing I did over the month of November about whether or not I should finish my breast reconstruction by getting my nipple. By Thanksgiving, while others around me prayed for thankfulness for 25-pound turkeys, houses to live in, and other various […]

Dear Fran, I just wanted to say that I had a great time this past October at your Health Summit. I learned a lot about cancer and was over-the-moon happy to be able to get my picture taken with you. Since I have not heard back from you, I think I am going to search […]

The same day that I posted my last nipple conversation on Facebook, I got a very strange picture in my inbox. It was a picture of a friend’s nipple. I realize that’s not something you see every day. Not in my circle of friends anyways. So, now I had six differing opinions as to what […]

In my last post, I talked about the conversation I had with my plastic surgeon back in the beginning of November. While people around me debated about normal things like what meal they were going to serve for Thanksgiving or what gifts they were going to give for Christmas, I hemmed and hawed about whether […]

In the beginning of November, I called my plastic surgeon. This is how the conversation went: Me: “Hi, Dr. Miller. I’m finishing up my manuscript for the publisher and I have a few questions. You interned for whom? and at what university?” Him: “Swartz and Pittsburgh.” Me: “Can I read another paragraph to you to […]

Dear Benefactor, I’ve been a bad, bad girl. Not naughty so much, but I haven’t used the hiking boots you bought me for so long. I think the last hiking I did was the jaunt over the Bruce Trail on September 10. Since then, the only “hiking” I’ve managed to do is every morning from […]