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lemonland :: october is breast cancer awareness month! time again to sqeeze your lemons + check for seeds or lumps. it's been 3 months since my mastectomy + lymph node surgery + my right arm is still very messed up. it's stiff + feels swollen, numb + burning + like an excruciating freezer burn on the upper back part. plus the intense burning from the cumulative radiation treatments i just completed + i have 9 more months of monoclonal antibody infusions (if my heart strength holds up). this saturday i'm attending a breast cancer survivor conference to find out more about preventing a recurrence. last month, i attended a cancer survivor conference in san francisco + although i enjoyed meeting all the people + the talented cancer survivor entertainers, it was bittersweet to be recognized by my college career counselor, because that means she's fighting cancer too. one of the speakers said, "everyone who's ever lived has had cancer. the body is replacing billions of dying cells every day + some of the copied cells contain errors, but the immune system destroys them + they're not usually a problem." by ~mod*mom~ at 3.10.06 © 1 Comments:i just had a mammogram yesterday! thanks for this link...keep hanging in there...i wish you the best of luck at the conference :) By rachael, at 10/05/2006 6:26 AM |