Arms either. If you're dreaming of having a new rack, you might to rethink that. Getting breast reconstruction hurts like hell, and I'm one of those people with a pretty decent pain threshold. Plus, you're not supposed to use your arms. (Don't tell the doctor I typed this blog. I'm not supposed to do that …
Unforgettable camaraderie
The minute I met these ladies at a photo shoot for Race for the Cure this morning, I felt huge compassion, respect and love for them. Each of us is going through different forms of the same thing - surgery, chemo, radiation. But we all want to return to our regularly scheduled lives stronger than …
Being a woman is a pain in the chest
Next to chemo, everything should be a cake walk. But getting syringes of fluid pumped behind your chest muscle is no sparkly cupcake. With boobs under construction, a drain dangling from one side and a throbbing back, I am not confection happy. Why does being a woman have to be so painful. I'm talking menstruation, …
Blogging while strongly medicated
Here's one piece of advice I can confidently give you: Don't drink and look for jobs on Craigslist. I did that once, scored an interview, then realized that I would have gone home with negative take-home pay. They laughed out loud when I called them to bow out of the interview. So here I am …
The doctor said it’s a little early to
The doctor said it's a little early to get off of pain killers. I tried to just take one pill at a time. The rest are antibiotics, muscle relaxers and other stuff. It's still beyond me how anyone gets addicted to oxy-whatever it is. One pill makes me semi-spacey. Two pills make me feel like …
Forgot to tell you
Don't miss the Spilled Milk Comedy Show tomorrow night. Brian is performing too!TUESDAY, APRIL 30 5:30 pm doors / 7 pm show“Spilt Milk! You’ll Laugh ‘Til You Cry!” Comedy Showcase benefiting Jacki KaneFeaturing Susan RiceBetsy KauffmanJoanie Quinn& MC Wendy Westerwelle O’Connors Restaurant7850 S.W. Capitol Hwy Portland, OR 97219503.244.1690Tickets: brownpapertickets.com/event/344596
Time warp again
Coming out of post-surgery fog is so weird. I'm just starting to remember the last few days. One day, I passed out after lunch, then woke up at 6:30 thinking it was morning and why was Livvie up so early? Steven was like, "But Mom, it's the same day." I couldn't get my mind to …
Weird Cancer Guy…Dead!
This just in: The cancer did not spread! They found a couple of "residual" cancer cells, but chemo killed them. It's the best possible news I could have gotten. Now the word "journey" can be used to describe big hair band, Journey, instead of cancer. "Don't stop believin,'" ya'll.
Tom Petty was right!
"The waiting is the hardest part." All I remember about surgery is passing out after one of the nurses pulled the hospital "shower curtain" closed. What the? They were supposed to bring a hot intern to surgery. When I woke up, I was in an identical room with another shower curtain. I kept asking anyone …
Steven takes over
NOTE: Steven is writing this. We decided that since my mom is really tired and can't use her arms, that I would take over the blog for a bit. I remember that cold and rainy day in November when I was at my friend's house. My parents came to pick up my sister and me. …
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