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The Great French Adventure: Trip to the Local Gendarmerie

Dense Breasts – What You Should Know

“Personally I believe that clinicians should tell women if they have dense breasts, as the sensitivity of conventional screening methods is lower in these settings.” — Dr. Gary Lyman, Duke University Here’s another article on this whole dense breasts issue. Governor Jerry Brown of California just vetoed a bill that would have made it mandatory in […]

Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow

“The snow doesn’t give a soft white damn whom it touches.” — E.E. Cummings My 93 year old mother-in-law attributes the crazy weather we’ve been having lately to the NASA space program. “Ever since they sent those astronauts up there, things have been crazy around here, weather wise.” Her theory is that they did something […]

How Eleanor Roosevelt Helped Me With My Latest OBGYN Visit

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.” –Eleanor Roosevelt Crappin’ monkeys. Once you have breast cancer, every doctor visit becomes way escalated. In the days pre-breast cancer, my typical OBGYN visit […]

New Study About Lymph Node Removal for Breast Cancer Treatment

What a year 2010 was. I’m so glad it’s over. As of February 14th, my final surgery is behind me, and I’m starting to get that it’s really all over and done with. The combination of the surgery along with that flu or whatever it was that I got the week prior to surgery, really […]

Memories Of My Grandmother’s Cooking

As we’d enter the hallway of her apartment building, the smells of Grandma Schmidt’s crispy fried potatoes and roasted chicken would float down the stairwell so strongly that we’d all begin to salivate within moments of walking in the door. We’d talk about it on the way up the stairs, murmuring among ourselves about how […]

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