Happy

I was standing in line at one of my favorite coffee houses, a place with wood everywhere and antiques for sale, and I was thinking, I want a...

Hair

****news flash **** Got the second drain removed. I am now a drain-free woman. It is so nice not to have the bulgey bulb sticking out of my ...

Contest Winner!

The winner of the contest is the first Anonymous. Could Anonymous please let me know how to get in touch with him/her? Thank you to the othe...

The Cancer Card

Today I used the cancer card. It was the second time. The first was when a telemarketer called in the morning (!) and I said, I'm going ...

The Prestidigitator

We read in our languishing weekly (it has to be languishing because I haven't published there recently and because this here blog has be...

Bad News, East & West

Our good friend S, who is married to L's cousin, just found out today that she has breast cancer. So she will be starting the MRI-chemo ...

A Contest!

I guess you'd think a person with cancer wouldn't be worried about being a hypochrondriac, but I was today. Worried. First of all I ...

What is a Meltdown?

It might be when you're feeling very very shatterable and don't want to answer "fine" when people ask you how you are and ...

The Mysteries

The pathology report is full of mysteries, and the surgeon says, Do you have any questions, secretly hoping that you don't. O please ple...

When a Double Negative is a Positive

The nurse at the Breast Center called me yesterday at 4:55pm to check to see if anyone had gotten back to me after my SATURDAY call about th...

Telling--Part 2

Saturday I went to The Little Cafe Down the Street for the first time since losing my breast. The film-student barrista said, Do you have a ...

Pictures of torture victims?

I wrote in the last post that maybe my bruised and wrinkled and rankled left chest looks familiar because of pictures I've seen of tortu...

The Angel

I read Cancer Vixen , and it is in color and hardbound, and the author is alive, and none of the people look like real people, just outlines...

Wet Spot

I woke up way way too early this morning with a wet spot around my underarm. After investigation, I found that I was leaking at the incision...

Looking At It

I looked at the incision. To do that I rolled down the camisole and the Ace bandage. There is still some curve to my breast. How much is swe...

Drain Bulbs

At the hospital, I thought it would be impossible to learn to "strip" the drains and empty the bulbs. This is what the contraption...

I Have Returned

I am home, we had a good dinner (a millions times more nutritious than anything the hospital served), I'm not in much pain, I feel a lit...