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 […]
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I’m personally coming out of a very grueling winter and school year. There, I said it. I know many of us are not in good places right now. COVID fatigue. Cancer fatigue. Shock at what is going on in Ukraine. Continued thinking that we can just throw out what we have experienced these past 2 […]
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 […]
On the heels of my positive mammogram results and oncology visit on Monday–and with the knowledge that I have continued to row and be active–here is a re-post from early 2016. Since October 2011–when I went to my gynecologist for a long overdue physical check-up, which led to a baseline mammogram at 43 that identified […]
Sunday night was the ‘Night Before’. You know, the night before an annual mammogram. Maybe you don’t. It’s a night that can be rather unsettling once you have been diagnosed with breast cancer. Is everything going to be ok? Just because I’ve hit the 5-year mark of survival, it doesn’t suddenly mean I get a […]
I liked Tim Duncan when he played basketball, but I found I really connected with him and his love of the Caribbean with his recent post in The Players’ Tribune “Don’t Forget About the Islands”about living through Hurricane Hugo when he was growing up on St. Croix. He personalized his home for his readers–St. Croix wasn’t […]
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