Entries Tagged as ‘screening’

April 10, 2008

A teensy bit scared

There’s this wonderful thread on breastcancer.org where you can do a “cancer sucks in this specific way” sort of post. A place to vent and rant. And rant people do, and you know what happens with rants after you really get into them? Funny, funny stories. Nothing like some dark humor [...]

December 12, 2007

relieved

Digital mammograms are amazing things. No waiting, just the results - right away. Plus EPIC West rocks - they have chocolate to eat while you sit and wait for the radiologist to read the mammogram pics. (Deep stress calls for chocolate.) They called me back for one additional pic just to [...]

April 4, 2007

Breast Cancer Screening Challenge

Ok, I am issuing an official 1-month challenge to all of my girlfriends who are in their late 30s and early 40s. Now’s the time - get screened for breast cancer, yesterday isn’t soon enough. My cancer was picked up on a routine mammogram, which I’ve done every year since I was 35. [...]