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Why October Gets Me Thinking About Recurrence

How I Finally Learned How To Meditate With An App Called ‘Calm’

Last week I decided to stop wearing my wig, and start going out with my “real” hair. After chemo, my hair came in completely silver, in addition to being so curly that it looks kind of like a very short Afro. So I decided to dye it myself on that snow day last week; after […]

Time To Throw Away the College Guides

Today I threw the college guides into the recycling bin. What a relief. They’ve been on the family room coffee table for 5+years, sometimes sitting on the top, sometimes buried underneath on the bottom shelf among the various other magazines and books that find their way there. If you’re a frequent reader of My Left Breast, […]

Musings About the Mastectomy

Since it’s a long weekend, and because I really can’t do very much around the house because of the whole surgery and all, I’m finding myself with a lot of time on my hands and I figure why not write? So, here goes. Surgery was at 7:30 a.m. so we had to get up at […]

Did I Do A Good Job Parenting My Kids?

My son made me this card in school for Mother’s Day 2010 and it hangs on the wall of my office. I remember the day I got it framed, mid-way through chemo. I cried that day at the framers, so overwhelmed by emotions. I was bald, I was weak, I was scared. But I was so happy […]

Why October Gets Me Thinking About Recurrence

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How I Finally Learned How To Meditate With An App Called ‘Calm’

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