Tag Archives: biopsy
Overdue update, & encountering cancer
This is largely what I saw the first time I encountered cancer: I was wearing this absurdly cheerful polka-dot skirt the day I went for my biopsy results and was informed I had a Stage 2, Grade 2 breast cancer. I was … Continue reading
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10 August 2009: Choice
Terrible foreboding and loneliness. The two of us in this house together and nothing but discomfort between us. I wish I could feel warmth, comfort, closeness. All outward signs are there: he takes me to the hospital, makes my meals, … Continue reading
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2 August 2009: 31,000 feet
Taking off from Cleveland as the red sun dips in the sky. From the air the network of streets and trees, ponds and houses seems delicate and deliberate. So many blue swimming pools. My hair is falling out again. To … Continue reading
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23 June 2009: a cry for connection
Awash again with chemo after Dr. S’s U-turn in treatment (a standoff in his office yesterday, his defensiveness and awkwardness and my ever-present frustration and anger)–decision to go ahead with the final two chemo treatments with a view to mastectomy … Continue reading
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Knock knock. Mammogram.
This morning I had a mammogram. I thought — the last time I did this, I had two breasts. I had an ultrasound as well, which resulted in a pseudo-PTSD flashback of the first time I had to have a breast … Continue reading
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7 March 2009: Biopsy
Breast bruised, aching, having been biopsied five times. Something isn’t right. Won’t know what is or isn’t for a week or more. I barely feel human, with the possibility of carrying around all these awful things inside of me. Four … Continue reading
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‘not cancer or anything’
So I’m having myself a wee bit of surgery today. That’s something I didn’t think I’d have to say anytime soon. I need to have a lump sliced outta my mouth. As above. Last week the ear nose & throat man … Continue reading
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I survived the NHS
I think I need to get this printed on a T-shirt and wear it around Western Pennsylvania. One of the things I am most dreading about my imminent return to the US is having to face the omnipresent Republican propaganda which, … Continue reading
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