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Tag Archives: metastasis
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 →
Posted in My Stage IV Life, Social Commentary, Stage IV Musings
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Tagged "cure rates", anxiety, Attitude, awareness, Beyond the Pink Moon, boredom, boring, breast, breast cancer, Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Cancer Culture, cancer loop, Cancertown, career, Diagnosis, Exemestane, Facebook, fear, friends, frustration, knitting, Komen, Lyrica, MBC, metastasis, metastatic breast cancer, OxyContin, Philosophy, pink ribbon, Pinktober, Stage IV, stage iv breast cancer, STFU, stigma, strong, support, TODAY, Treatment, vulnerability, whiney
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61 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
Xgeva
Posted in Just for Laughs, My Stage IV Life
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Tagged breast, breast cancer, breasts, Humor, metastasis, metastatic breast cancer, Stage IV, stage iv breast cancer, Tang, Treatment, Xgeva
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5 Comments
Released from Prison
Where the hell have I been these past few months? Well, ever since my last episode with radiation of a painful bone tumor in my sacrum, I seem to have misplaced my voice. It could likely be lost among my yarn stash, but … Continue reading →
Posted in My Stage IV Life
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Tagged breast cancer, breasts, career, compartmentalization, denial, depression, friends, frustration, guilt, knitting, metastasis, metastatic breast cancer, pain, pain management, pain. chronic pain, prison, scan, self-worth, social life, socialization, Stage IV, stage iv breast cancer, stigma, support, Treatment, vulnerability
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20 Comments
The Breastless Nude
Recently I went on quite a tear when it was revealed that Kohl’s and Komen had co-opted METAvivor’s intellectual property for an ad campaign. It really rakes my last nerve when people do this; rather than call up an original idea–which … Continue reading →
Posted in Advocacy, Breastploitation, My Stage IV Life, Social Commentary
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Tagged advocacy, breast cancer, breastless nudes, Cancer Culture, Charice Isis, David Jay, Grace, iconic mythology of breast cancer, Kohl's, Komen, metastasis, metastatic breast cancer, objectification, photography, pink ribbon, Stage IV, stage iv breast cancer, stigma, The SCAR Project, vulnerability
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27 Comments
DONE
Radiation: Day Five
Posted in My Stage IV Life, Stage IV Musings
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Tagged breast cancer, Diagnosis, metastasis, metastatic breast cancer, pain management, Radiation, Stage IV, stage iv breast cancer, Treatment
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4 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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2 Comments
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
Past Tense
The paperwork is in. Fifty pages compiled by four people and faxed to two insurance companies. Disability. I didn’t want to do it. Indeed, for two years I fought hard to crawl my way back to who I was. I can hardly … Continue reading →