12 years ago, Terry and I were back in New Orleans after heading north for Thanksgiving. We had stopped in Memphis to celebrate our 7th anniversary, eating yummy food and listening to great music. We spent a few days in Chicago checking on our condo, visiting family and playing tourists… And we wrapped up the […]
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My Vanda is back in bloom!!! Blooming in the midst of the adversity of the past few years. It’s been two years since these beautiful buds last appeared around here. Very fitting and a reminder. 11 years ago, on December 1, 2011, a follow up mammogram and ultrasound left digital impressions of three masses on […]
I thought I was doing ok. I thought I’d processed my BC well enough so that I wouldn’t find myself in total PTSD Land here in late December 2021. Nope. Instead, I’ve been spending the last part of 2021 remembering. Surgery postponed to tomorrow CaringBridge Post Dec 27, 2011 7:53am I was going to send […]
Thursday, December 1, 2011 A beautiful, sunny, and warm New Orleans afternoon. A follow-up trip to the Diagnostic Imaging Services Center on Prytania Street in Uptown after my November 16th baseline mammogram screening had showed “grouped fine pleomorphic calcifications in the right breast.” I worked in the morning and went to my afternoon appointment by […]
Since my mom needed reading glasses–cheaters–in her 40s and I had always followed after her, I expected to need glasses at some point in my 40s–and I was right. On the other hand, breast cancer showing up 5 years ago today on December 1st, was not expected. Today I officially hit the 5 year mark of […]
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