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All solutions are individual. by Sandi W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Breast Cancer That's what I learned from reading the Chicago Tribune today, specifically, a little wrap-around page touting itself. But wasn't it preaching to the choir? It should be boasti ... Read on »

...and now Pap smears... by Sandi W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Breast Cancer ["Curiouser and curiouser."] Holy Toledo! Now we don't need Pap smears as often. Have we been (the equivalent) of navel-gazing in the past, getting ourselves checke ... Read on »

Everything They Told Us Is Wrong... by Sandi W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Breast Cancer ...or at least it seems so. Now they say that self-exams aren't necessary and that you don't need a mammogram until age 40. I'll have more about this during the day. In the me ... Read on »

Horrors! Woman touches own breasts on TV! by Sandi W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Breast Cancer { Sorry--I couldn't figure out technically how to capture a still of the woman examining her breasts. It is much less sexy than this stock picture from photosearch.com. } It ... Read on »

The Tyranny of the Positive Thinkers by Sandi W. Patient Expert

1 Comment Posted in: Blog Posts in Breast Cancer [Imagine a red slash through the smiley face] From Saturday's New York Times, by Patricia Cohen: .....In “Bright-sided,” [Barbara Ehrenreich] traces the roots of ... Read on »

Self-conscious Narrators by Sandi W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Breast Cancer L took the picture of me above and it didn't seem to look like me. It reminded me of young Leonard Michaels (1933-2003), whom I talked about in class on Thursday. He was known ... Read on »

The Need for Health Insurance by Sandi W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Breast Cancer At present the United States has the unenviable distinction of being the only great industrial nation without universal health insurance. Health insurance is like elementary ... Read on »

Maybe I'm wrong. by Sandi W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Breast Cancer Maybe I'm wrong about the reason the original oncologist didn't give me Cytoxan. Maybe there was another reason, which I forgot in my chemo-brain-ness. But I must have been wr ... Read on »

Please vote. by Sandi W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Breast Cancer Dear Cancer Bitch readers, I will relate a scenario to you and I'd like you to vote on my response. Today I went to a town hall sponsored by Fancy Hospital. My oncologists ( ... Read on »

Neighborly by Sandi W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Breast Cancer D called at noon when I was finishing up my morning sun salutations and we decided to meet for lunch at 12:30. I rushed out and got into L's car because it was closest to Clar ... Read on »

Where's your wife? by Sandi W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Breast Cancer Cancer Bitch recommends that you do not ask this question. She has asked it twice in the last 2 years and it was awkward in the first case. So why did she ask it again? She is ... Read on »

What's on my food? by Sandi W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Breast Cancer I found a new-ish (launched this summer) website that tells you what pesticides you're ingesting with each piece of fruit or vegetable. Kind of; it tells you what was on a sam ... Read on »

Follow-up by Sandi W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Breast Cancer Swedish researchers found that eating foods that were high in acrylamide did not cause breast cancer. To wit: During a mean follow-up of 17.4 years, a total of 2,952 incident ... Read on »

Hello, Sweet; Good-bye, Crunchy by Sandi W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Breast Cancer First the sweet: A pot of bright tomato-red-orange lilies appeared in one of our flower beds yesterday. It seems new, since the tag is still on it, and we plan to plant it. Ou ... Read on »

On a scale of one to ten... by Sandi W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Breast Cancer That's what they always ask you: Where is your pain on a scale of one to ten? The question, of course, is, what's ten? I imagine ten to be Joan of Arc at the stake. A man bei ... Read on »

Cancer has left the family... by Sandi W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Breast Cancer downtown Litchpatch...as far as we know. My mother-in-law's melanoma was removed from her leg, skin was grafted over it, and there's no damn cancer in her lymph notes. She's w ... Read on »

The bitch is rich! by Sandi W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Breast Cancer I got my first royalty check ever today: 895 whole dollars, US. I still owe money to the publishers of my other two books; the difference is that they paid advances. U of Iow ... Read on »

Trust by Sandi W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Breast Cancer I am sitting at the dining room table in the house of strangers who are vacationing in Oregon. I have never met them, but they left their key for me in the shed and have encou ... Read on »

Where's my degree? by Sandi W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Breast Cancer I am tired of seeing doctors and doctors and getting estimates and giving my insurance card to be photocopied and also the list of medicine I take. I'm tired of filling out fo ... Read on »

Entering the 21st Century by Sandi W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Breast Cancer I don't have an iPod or iPhone or crackberry or cable TV, but I am now on my first podcast. If you feel the need to hear me interviewed by Chronic Babe, please tune in: http: ... Read on »

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