OK, this is actually more like the FIRST countdown, but no one has written that song that I’m aware of, and as with all things in my life, this must have a theme song.  Or twelve.  My husband keeps playing the beginning of Vanilla Ice’s “Ninja Rap,” the theme song from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles […]

So the biopsy came back sooner than anticipated. There are three lumps in my left breast… all cancer.  Since the one they didn’t find until the MRI and biopsied yesterday is more than 10 cm from the other ones… lumpectomy is no longer an option.   I’m having a mastectomy.  Who the hell has space for […]

Just a quick update to all- today’s MRI guided biopsy results will not come back until Friday… I’m hoping to start building a timeline then.   An MRI guided biopsy has all of the unpleasantness of an MRI, some of the compression of a mammogram (including an actual mammogram afterwards) and the residual pain of […]

OK, I thought this post would be all about next steps and what the plan looks like to ninja the cancer out of my breast.  Not so much. Let’s start with what I DO know. Right breast, the mass was a normal healthy lymph node. End of story for righty. Lefty, we know more from pathology: […]

This weekend was great, lots of time to relax, but as we got closer to home, sometimes there has been too much time to reflect. I’m sitting at SCCA, waiting for my appointments to begin, and I’m feeling sick to my stomach. Much of the last 24 hours as this time has approached, I’ve felt […]

Today I worked a part of the day, and then drove from Portland, through the town where I lived from 1st-5th grade, Corvallis, and on out to Newport, Oregon.  In fact, I’m writing this from my hotel balcony overlooking the Pacific, While my boys (the 9 yo & the 37yo… left the Fluffy one w/ […]

I tend to be an over-sharer.  You should be warned of this early, and probably often, because really, that’s what I think I’ll be doing here, so in spite of the fact that I don’t have a lot of more news, I’ve been going through my list of people who I think will want to […]

(second and final post originally posted on Big Girls Can Tri, July 22, 2012) I’ve decided that the medical community needs to change their terminology. When I got the call Thursday afternoon, “Both sites sampled came back positive for invasive ductal carcinoma,” the only real positive is that I have an answer.  Not necessarily the […]

(This first post is transplanted from my old blog BigGirlsCanTri, July 18, 2012) And honestly, although the diet has been going well, it’s about all I’ve been able to think about since. Since most people who I pretend are reading this care in my head about the workout & weight loss stuff, I’ll tell you […]