Tag: life
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Welcome to the Club
This month marked my official induction into the Survivorship Program. I know that phrase should be encouraging, but I didn’t ask for this membership. Never downloaded the app, never registered my email, yet here I am. In the club. This brought so many emotions. I had to reach out to a few of my breast…
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Before and After
Today was my oncology consult. My Oncotype DX score returned. For those who may have missed the earlier post on this. your tumor is typically sent on for additional genetic testing to better understand the tumor behavior. This is the standard for those under 50 with hormone receptor positive, HER- early stage breast cancer that…
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What to Say When You Don’t Know What to Say
I had a long talk on the way home yesterday with a good friend of mine who trekked through this same journey a few years ago. She was helping a woman in her club that had gotten notification of an abnormal mammogram. It hit me that just two short months ago, I was getting that…
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Back to the Books
I left work for the last day before surgery last week. I sent out a reminder to my fellow chiefs to remind them I would be out next week and that I would keep my work cell phone nearby if anything urgent arose. I heard complete crickets. It’s incredible how much of our entire self…