Health | Mesothelioma | Cancer

The echocardiogram was fine, the doctor found nothing unusual when she examined me, my butt is sore today from all the biking, the technician got the vein on the first try before the ct scan, I will have results in about a week, I got to go on a great walk with my sister today, my kids and spouse have just left on a two night canoe trip and this evening, I am going out for a grown-up dinner.

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I had a brain MRI today. I’d never had one before and it’s a pretty weird experience.

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For the last few months, I’ve been playing along with a group of folks over at BlogHer who’ve formed a group called “List Lovers Unite.” I’m a sucker for “to do” lists and I’ve found the practice of making monthly to do lists to be rather compelling.

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It’s interesting. Since my own diagnosis, my view of cancer and cancer treatment has changed. I think many of us have thought of cancer as an “all or nothing” disease for a long time. We are either cured or we aren’t. We survive or we don’t survive. Our cancer is either gone or it’s there. The only good outcome is that our cancer is gone and we move on with our lives intact cancer-free.

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Breast cancer is a largely unknown disease until today, despite the fact that it affects almost ten percent of the women above the age of forty years all over the world. The causes of this killer cancer are not known even after decades of research into it. Similarly it is unknown why some women have higher chances of getting breast cancers than others.

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this is one of my favorite pictures.

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I am waiting for results from yesterday’s CT scan. My oncologist said that I should call him for results after five days, so I am going to start calling on Friday (it’s only four days post-test but what have I got to lose by calling?).

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Just got my CT results from a very up-beat sounding nurse.

No change.

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An Ottawa reminder:

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Last week, a comment was left on my blog that really moved me. It linked to BrCa: Blog on Risk, Cancer and Anxiety (it’s an excellent resource if you are interested in learing more about genetic testing and the genes that carry breast cancer).

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