Tag Archives: diagnosis
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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12 August 2009: the visible universe
Five months exactly since I saw the surgeon for the first time. Leaving the tutorial on To the Lighthouse, meeting K. at Barons Court tube station and walking to the hospital and treating him horribly. That infernal wait in the … Continue reading
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March 12
It’s the one-year anniversary of my diagnosis. Who could possibly understand the past year? The only one who was with me is gone–a relief for the both of us, I know, in the end. How could you ever look at … Continue reading
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And by ‘anxiety,’ we mean ‘expense.’
In case you missed the controversy sparked yesterday by the “government task force” (can anything sound more Orwellian? who are these people?) over new mammography guidelines, and let’s be honest, I doubt you did: women should start having mammograms at 50, not 40, and … Continue reading
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‘cancer cases found after errors’
Ohforfuckssake. Just when you’ve managed to profess a tiny bit of faith in the medical profession, something like this hits the fan. I had this recurrent fantasy throughout my treatment that the same would happen, but in reverse. For awhile I even convinced myself … 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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