Pesty McPesterton
I am a pest. Pesty McPesterton right here (by the way, when you blog, there is an unwritten rule that you get to make up words). I was going to have a psychological meltdown today. I was hanging on by a thread or two… I did good-ish. -sigh- I left 3 messages for the oncology nurses and then started to wonder why the nurses hadn’t called me back. They usually call me back so quickly when I leave a message (with an ALL CLEAR...
2013, The Year of the Scans
So, last year I stuffed all of this extra money into my health savings account expecting to be scanned left and right and up and down and back and forth and that wasn’t really how it worked out. I had a couple of ultrasounds, a bone scan and one mighty fine year. Not needing the money was fine, except that account is “use it or lose it” so I lost it… this year I was wise and put just barely enough money in...
Clarification and a Cough
Sometimes I just wonder what should be a big deal and what shouldn’t be a big deal and when I can relax. I guess I should always relax, stress isn’t good for you. After my adventures last week I decided that I would make an appointment with my plastic surgeon to talk about the small revision I had been considering to my initial reconstructive surgeries (hey, he did a good job, but… you know… I have a part that...
A No-Boob Mammogram
“I won’t be able to tell from an ultrasound if this is cancer or not cancer” That is totally what I wanted to hear from the radiologist right before he does an ultrasound to check a lump. I had my quarterly check up, not stressed, not one bit. I had my favorite purple smoothie in hand. I had had a cough thing going on that had been chest x-ray-ed antibiotics administered the previous week and that had been the only...
Positively Positive
I have been making an effort to be positive lately. It may sound funny because as I started this breast cancer blog I surrounded myself with positivity (and maybe a wee bit of sarcasm, ok… a lot of sarcasm). I laughed at the random things that probably wouldn’t make most human beings laugh and I made it through each day so that I could wake up the next and say “wow, it is awesome to be here!” I was making some...