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Tag Archives: Attitude
Flayed Alive
I used to love to enthrall my history students with tales of the Assyrians. They would flay their victims while they were alive and parade them in cages to the next village on their map of conquest in order to … Continue reading →
Posted in My Stage IV Life
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Tagged #bcsm, #lifers, advocacy, anger, Attitude, awareness, breast cancer, career, chronic disease, chronic pain, depression, disability, hydration, loss, malaise, roller coaster, Stage IV, stage iv breast cancer, vulnerability, vulnerable
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20 Comments
Open Letter to Joan Lunden
I want to thank Joan Lunden and the people of TODAY of putting the spotlight, however brief, on metastatic breast cancer–the one that no one talks about. A link to the TODAY spot is below. http://www.joanlunden.com/category/35-breast-cancer/item/453-today-show-pinkpower-day-3 Dear Ms. Lunden, You are … Continue reading →
Posted in Advocacy, Breast Cancer PSAs, Breastploitation, My Stage IV Life
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Tagged advocacy, Attitude, awareness, bald, breast, breast cancer, Breast Cancer Awareness Month, breasts, Diagnosis, frustration, hair loss, hair loss due to cancer, Information resources, Joan Lunden, Media, metastasis, metastatic breast cancer, October, pink ribbon, Pinktober, Politics, Research, stage iv breast cancer, support, TODAY, TODAY show, Treatment
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39 Comments
Remission
The Catch-22 of having metastatic breast cancer is this: when you’re caught in a period of crisis all you hope for is that your scans will improve, the pain will lessen or go away, your energy will return, and that … Continue reading →
Posted in My Stage IV Life
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Tagged Attitude, awareness, breast cancer, breasts, cancer cell, Cancer Culture, career, Catch-22, Diagnosis, Exemestane, exhaustion, friends, frustration, Humor, knitting, Lupron, metastasis, metastatic breast cancer, pain management, PET/CT, Philosophy, remission, Stage IV, stage iv breast cancer, support, Tamoxifen, Treatment, vulnerability, Xgeva
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40 Comments
Upcoming Conferences for Those with Metastatic Breast Cancer
Two upcoming conferences offer the potential of real benefit for women and men with breast cancer, and also to their caregivers, friends, and families. Registration is now open for Living Beyond Breast Cancer’s Eighth Annual Conference for Women Living with Metastatic … Continue reading →
Posted in Advocacy, My Stage IV Life, Stage IV Musings
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Tagged advocacy, April, Attitude, awareness, breast cancer, Cancer Culture, confe, Eighth Annual Conference for Those Living with Metastatic Breast Cancer and Caregivers, Eighth Annual Conference for Women Living with Metastatic Breast Cancer, fellowship, Information resources, LBBC, Living Beyond Breast Cancer, metastasis, metastatic breast cancer, metastatic breast cancer network, registration, September, Stage IV, stage iv breast cancer, support, travel grants
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Jinxed
I have another lytic lesion in my sacrum. When I saw the picture from my routine PET/CT it looked like the Eye of Mordor. The circle of the body was bright orange and there on the left, on the sacrum, … Continue reading →
Posted in Advocacy, My Stage IV Life, Social Commentary
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Tagged 30%, @Judy_KomenCEO, @SusanGKomen, advocacy, Attitude, Biopsy, bone metastasis, breast cancer, Cancer Culture, Elephant in the Pink Room, Exemestane, Eye of Mordor, Information resources, jinx. jinxed, Komen, Letrozole, lytic lesion, Mammogram, metastasis, metastatic breast cancer, metastatic disease, metastatic research, Metavivor, PET/CT, Philosophy, pink ribbon, Research, Stage IV, stage iv breast cancer, superstition, superstitious, support, Susan G. Komen, Susan G.Komen for the Cure, Varian
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30 Comments
Facepalm
You all know my feelings about Susan G. Komen (see my commentary here, here, and here). And it has always been puzzling to me that a woman whose sister supposedly died of breast cancer that metastasized would establish an organization … Continue reading →
Posted in Advocacy, Breast Cancer PSAs, Breastploitation, Social Commentary, Stage IV Musings
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Tagged #talkpink, @SusanGKomen, advocacy, Attitude, avarice, awareness, BOYCOTT, breast cancer, Cancer Culture, greed, hubris, Information resources, Jonathan Blum, Kohl's, Komen, met, metastasis, metastatic breast cancer, Metavivor, OCCUPY, pink ribbon, Stage IV, stage iv breast cancer, support, Susan G.Komen for the Cure
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9 Comments
#TALKPINK
Posted in Advocacy, Breast Cancer PSAs, Breastploitation, Social Commentary, Stage IV Musings
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Tagged #talkpink, @Judy_KomenCEO, @NancyGBrinker, @SusanGKomen, advocacy, Attitude, breast cancer, Cancer Culture, Information resources, Kohl's, Kohl's cares, Komen, metastatic breast cancer, Metavivor, pink Kohl's cash, pink ribbon, pinksploitation, Research, Stage IV, stage iv breast cancer, Susan G.Komen for the Cure
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You Want It? You Got It.
Dear Ladies Who Want My Breast Cancer, I know that my blog posts and Twitter activity have been minimal since august of 2013. It was a miserable year filled with tests, pain, and uncertainty. I think I have been distant … Continue reading →
Posted in Breast Cancer PSAs, Breastploitation, Social Commentary
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Tagged @OfficialPAC, advocacy, Attitude, breast cancer, Cancer Culture, embarrassingly bad ad campaigns, fear, fucked up shit, metastasis, metastatic breast cancer, pain management, pancreatic cancer, Pancreatic Cancer Action, pink ribbon, Politics, Stage IV, stage iv breast cancer, support, Treatment, vulnerability
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33 Comments
The SCAR Project: VICTORY!
Some weeks ago, I initiated a Change.org petition to address what I thought were problems with Facebook’s policy regarding images of mastectomy. A handful of images had been removed from The SCAR Project‘s page and the project’s founder, David Jay, … Continue reading →
Posted in Advocacy, Social Commentary
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Tagged advocacy, Attitude, awareness, breast, breast cancer, change.org, David Jay, Diagnosis, Facebook, Facebook terms of service, mastectomy, metastasis, metastatic breast cancer, petition, Stage IV, stage iv breast cancer, stupid dumb breast cancer, support, The SCAR Project
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38 Comments
STFU
So I’ve been attempting to write post after post after post, inevitably trashing them all. I tried one on depression, one on anxiety, one on pink. Whatever I tried it just never worked. And I have to say that through … Continue reading →