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Recuperating (Or Being A Bad Patient) - ReadNews

I am recuperating from my surgery. It has been 8 days now. I am starting to get to the annoyed stage. The seriously annoyed stage. First of ...

The Importance of Learning About Your Health - ReadNews

Can you answer these three questions from the Brief Health Literacy Screen (BHLS):  How confident are you in filling out medical forms on yo...

Tumor Size Doesn't Matter - ReadNews

All cancer tumors start small and end up bigger. This is logic that is clear as day.  Tumors don't show up 3 cm across out of nowhere. A...

The Road Through Chemo - ReadNews

Everyone's road through chemotherapy is a bit unique. We all face our demons of nausea, fatigue, hair loss, and emotional ups and downs ...

Trapped At Home - ReadNews

I haven't been so trapped at home since chemo. Then I was too sick to care that I spent my life inside watching TV, hanging out with the...

New Research Which Could Have More Thought - ReadNews

There is always more research going on - especially cancer research. Especially breast cancer research. I swear sometimes the world is full ...

I Don't Do Pink Things Except.... - ReadNews

I don't do pink things. I detest things where if you had breast cancer you are supposed to cover yourself in pink, including a few boas,...

Number Nine - ReadNews

Surgery number nine was yesterday. I thought the surgeon was going to clean out my knee arthroscopically so it would no longer catch and loc...

Reminder What Not To Say To Breast Cancer People - ReadNews

As part of the universal pinkification of October, Good Housekeeping magazine has a section on breast cancer (who knew?). But one thing they...

What we choose to name a disease matters - ReadNews

A couple of years ago around this time, I was dealing with a series of minor health problems. I developed a sinus infection that took severa...