Posted in breast cancer, chemo, recovery, tagged breast cancer, cancer, chemo, driving, friends. medical tests, hair, julie martin, mastectomy on October 30, 2007 | 1 Comment »
First order of business: corrections. Do you think newspaper and magazine editors feel embarrassed when they have to issue corrections?
Obviously, in addition to inheriting my mother’s breast cancer tendencies, and her trick of calling people by the wrong name (often when she was meaning to say my name she’d say “Jackie” and then “Patty”, [...]
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Posted in breast cancer, chemo, recovery, tagged julie martin, cancer, chemo, mastectomy, breast cancer, driving, friends. medical tests, Halloween, oncologist on October 28, 2007 | No Comments »
Well, Halloween is coming up, and today I’m feeling like I am already wearing a horrifying costume. I’m tired, I’m in pain, and I just want this to be over.
Saw the surgeon on Thursday, and now the word he used for the ongoing edema around the incisions is “unusual”. Also, the skin around [...]
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Posted in breast cancer, recovery, tagged breast cancer, cancer, chemo, driving, friends. medical tests, julie martin, mastectomy, oncologist; recovery on October 21, 2007 | No Comments »
10/13/07
Hi there -
Because I am having so much discomfort from typing (and because I’m only taking the *good* drugs at night to help me sleep!), I’m going to write this a little at a time starting on the 13th, probably finishing on the 19th or 20th.
I visited the plastic surgeon on the 11th, got a [...]
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Sorry for the keyboard silence - typing is currently causing too much discomfort for me to be able to blog. However, all is well, no problems, just normal healing issues as this point. I hope to be able to blog at length soon with updates (not that much has been happening this past [...]
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Yesterday was a very long, tiring day. I didn’t realize just how long and tiring until this morning, when I woke up after sleeping 12 hours and still felt as if I needed more sleep.
The first appointment was with the reconstruction surgeon, who saw the tote I was carrying and immediately bawled me out [...]
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Posted in breast cancer, recovery, tagged breast cancer, cancer, chemo, driving, friends. medical tests, hair, julie martin, mastectomy, oncologist on October 3, 2007 | No Comments »
Well, I thought I’d spend a lot more time reading than I have - even working full time and working on various arts and hobbies, I typically read 13 or more books per month - what joy, then, to have so much time (and so much enforced sitting around!) on my hands. Surely I [...]
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Hi y’all -
I’m back online - at least for a short time, tonight. I’ve sent a couple short e-mails since I got home, but find that typing is a little awkward for me. I’m going to see if Brian can fix me up with one of our laptops in case that will work [...]
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