Around the time I turned 55 earlier this year, I was finding out that my first six-month post-slash-‘n’-burn mammogram appeared to show some possible further breast cancer, for which I was advised to get another diagnostic mammogram as soon as possible. My best birthday present this year, far and away, was being told that this […]
Okay, as a photographer, I have to mark this occasion, which is the day that Kodak stops selling Kodachrome, that wonderful color film immortalized in song by Paul Simon. Don’t feel sorry for Kodak, though. They are doing all right in the digital age, selling digital cameras & printers & stuff. But this does signal […]
I hope you like the new avatar. It’s a composite of a real photo of my legs, plus some catalog photos from an archery supply website. Those are my actual legs, and that is an actual tattoo on the right one, which I got a few weeks ago so that the only tattoos on my […]
Twenty-five years ago, Dr. Susan Love and I were distant neighbors in the Jamaica Plain section of Boston. She was starting to develop a wonderful reputation at nearby Faulkner Hospital as the go-to doctor for women facing breast cancer, and I was a young feminist activist working with various women’s organizations on issues relating to […]
“Symmetry is vastly overrated.”
Skewering the pinksploitation of breast cancer since 2009.
Seven Years in A Row!
Now, I like to think I provide solid information on this blog. But nothing you read here can replace seeing
your doctor if you need medical help. By all means, read a little first so you can ask good questions. But then go get help so you can come back & tell me how it went. Just take good care
of yourself. I need you to come back &
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The first ever MAAM of the Year blogger awards (Mammogramatically-challenged And/or Also Metsters) were given to breast cancer bloggers of righteous snark. I'm so proud!
