What’s Wrong With Pink?
          
            
              Published at: 01:10 am - Wednesday October 27 2010
            
            “If we continue making progress at this current rate, it will take more than five hundred years to end breast cancer.” — Fran Visco, President of the National Breast Cancer Coalition Searching For Answers I know this sweetheart of a nurse practitioner named Dierdre who works for the local gastroenterologists — the GI guys, a.k.a. […]
            
              Posted in: Attitude, Diagnosis, Recurrence, Screening, Fighting the Pink Peril, Health & Healthcare, Making A Difference, Research, Survivorship by Kathi   BRCA, breast cancer, Cancer, genetic testing, healthcare, ovarian cancer, prostate cancer, research, responsibility, survivorship, uterine cancer
            
            
           
         
        
          Off My Chest
          
            
              Published at: 04:10 pm - Thursday October 21 2010
            
            WARNING: The truth shall make you hurl — possibly. You wouldn’t think I’d have trouble dashing off blog posts during Pinktober, would you? But I have. It’s the overwhelming surfeit of potential topics that has had me stymied. There is just so much to say, I don’t know where to begin. I finally decided to […]
            
              Posted in: Diagnosis, Recurrence, Screening, Health & Healthcare, Nitty Gritty, Radiation, Surgery & Reconstruction by Kathi   breast surgery, healthcare, lumpectomy, mammography, radiation, survivorship, vulnerability
            
            
           
         
        
          My Awareness Wish List
          
            
              Published at: 07:10 pm - Thursday October 14 2010
            
            I would have written a blog post a few weeks ago, at the beginning of October, but I was just too tired from work. Since then, I’ve wanted several times to write, but I was overwhelmed by a surfeit of potential topics. Every time I thought I knew what I’d focus on, some fresh muck […]
            
              Posted in: Attitude, Diagnosis, Recurrence, Screening, Fighting the Pink Peril, Health & Healthcare by Kathi   Awareness, breast cancer, cognitive impairment, fatigue, healthcare, mammography, music, survivorship