The weight loss ticker at the right is malfunctioning, but I just had to share: I just weighed in at night at the same morning weight I had last week. And my night weight is 2 – 3 lbs heavier than my morning weight, which means that the 2 lb weight loss from last [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘breast cancer’
November 3, 2009
Eating out fail #1: Baja Fresh
I thought chain restaurants were supposed to post their calorie counts? What’s up with that? I went to Baja Fresh today and they told me to go look on their website. No iphone here, sorry. You’d think they’d have a handout, but no. So I did my best to guess at [...]
October 29, 2009
My daily plate
Am really thankful for the LiveStrong Foundation’s “My Daily Plate” nutrient counter: today I had 1530 calories, and 51 grams of fat. And that was a day with what I felt like was a lot of food. Was bummed that there was dairy in my chicken tandoori. And who knew that the [...]
October 26, 2009
uphill
It’s time to lose the 25+ lbs that packed on during radiation. Hence the weight loss ticker on the right. First step: accurate scale (done). Second step: athletic shoes.
October 25, 2009
a love letter to my liver (or, fatty liver after breast cancer treatment)
Oh liver, why so gray? The other organs bounce bright white light around the C/T screen, but you, you sit there with fat throughout, listless. Dull and aching. Is it because you miss your friend estradiol? Was it the short dance with tamoxifen?
“Kidneys, heart, pancreas — all beautiful,” the radiologist said. I want you to [...]
October 22, 2009
bart saga part 4
So apparently the note in the file re: family history of ovarian cancer was “either uterine or ovarian cancer” which is why it wasn’t reported
October 21, 2009
the brca BART saga, continued
So, I contacted Myriad to actually get the criteria for the BART, and this time was told that I would need two relatives with breast cancer under age 50 or ovarian cancer at any age. My response: Check! Got those.
October 16, 2009
Myriad’s BRCA 5-site rearrangement panel does NOT include BART
The answer to my question a few days ago is: No. Myriad Lab’s brca 5-site rerrangement panel does NOT include the BART (BRACAnalysis® Rearrangement Test).
October 12, 2009
Does the BRCA 5-site rearrangement panel include BART testing?
My medical geekiness showed its colors today. Last night, at the Young Survivors Sunday Starbucks group an amazing guest speaker mentioned the BART test for those who had tested BRCA negative. So, I dug out my trusty notebook of lab results, flipped to the genetics section and found my Mar 2007 “Comprehensive BRACAnalysis.” It lists [...]
October 11, 2009
rearranging life after cancer
Cancer rearranges life. The people who go through chemo with us are not necessarily the people who are with us afterwards. There’s a tendency with any big change in someone’s life to want them to go back to who they always were, but those big experiences – they change us. And our friends don’t always [...]
