On my way up and down the elevator from Nuclear Medicine the day before my first surgery, the doors kept opening on the 5th floor, where there was a big bright cheerful sign: Morrell Center for Childhood Cancer and Blood Disorders Every time, I kept thinking, thank goodness this is about me and not them.
Author: ekhb
telling people is the worst
I don’t like being the center of attention. I don’t like giving people bad news. This is not a good recipe for someone who has to go around announcing that she has breast cancer again. Silver Bay, where there were maybe 50 people who needed to be told, was getting a bit agonizing. Hi, how […]
timeline (july-august 2006)
Here is a timeline of this summer’s breast-cancer adventure: Late May: found lumpy area in left breast. This was only the second time since my first breast cancer in 1995 that anything had worried me–and the first was in ’97 or ’98. Early June: went to midwife for annual exam, she agreed area felt worrisome, […]
what am I doing here? (said Persephone)
Good question. Given my reaction to blogging, nothing but something unusual and prejudice-shaking would bring me here. That something seems to be breast cancer, for the second time in my life, just before my 40th birthday. Though I have been sending out periodic e-mail updates to a large list of family and friends, there are […]