Be happy * it's Adar.

Adar is the Hebrew month that we're in now, and sundown Saturday is the beginning of the holiday of Purim , which is when we're supp...

Gimme That Ol' Gift O' Cancer

And Annie and I fell in love all over again. We refer to the gift of cancer, because despite the hell she went through, it delivered us heav...

"Take two (or so) and call me in the morning (or next week or next month or next year)."

A large study that was just published shows that women with breast cancer who take aspirin are more likely to live longer and to not have a ...

Laughing Baby

This is a very recent picture of my step-granddaughter Brielle, who was born Jan. 2, 2010 (an' I hailped). We think she has a nice perso...

MRI Results

I got the results of the MRI. I'm clean. It's clean. Or however you say it. People keep asking if I get scanned for cancer lurking i...

Free nipple tattoos

Those of you not in the breast-cancer world might be imagining blue mermaids inked on someone's nipple. But what I'm talking about i...

Tales from the MRI

I got an MRI on Wednesday, as a precaution, because I've had calcifications that are "probably benign" on my mammograms for th...

Bits & Pieces

Click here to read Dennis Pyritz's thoughtful new review of The Adventures of Cancer Bitch. Today I had my 7th session with my personal...