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2006-03-29
*Dancin'* — looks like I'll live a little longer yet <relief> *Dancin'* — looks like I'll live a little longer yet <relief>The incidence of breast cancer has gone up about a percentage point every year since 1940.'Good' News? Going Amazonian, but: From all the tests they've done so far, it *looks* like there are no other signs of the cancer spreading beyond its main body and the nearest axillary lymph node. Greatly relieving to my most fearful worries. The surgeon wants to operate on me next week. Because the bodily damage is less than my previous operation I may only have to stay in hospital for a week. He says that most people can return to work between 4 and 6 weeks after that, and they would usually let me recover for some while more before starting further treatment. After the operation, when they've had a chance to look inside, and can study what they take out closely to see just what it is, we'll be discussing the best alternative for further treatment. It all depends on which type or combination of the many treatments available seems to be best, given all the information we'll have by then. General Information from www.abc.com.au/ health/ library/ breastcancer_ff.htm From www.fenceliners.com.au/news.htm The Radical Mastectomy The Sentinel Node Biopsy by Paul Crea FRCS FRACS. General Surgery, Surgical Oncology and Breast Surgery. See also www.breasthealth.com.au/index.html (tho' it's freezing up the browser at the moment). Why I'm lucky - one reason I'd hesitate if time travel became practicable. Thank goodness for anaesthetics (& of course antisepsis). A small memorial to Fanny Burney's September 30th, 1811 mastectomy: with only "one wine cordial" for her anaesthesia, she endured "the most torturing pain. I felt the knife rackling against the breast bone -- scraping it! cutting against the grain, attom after attom" until "the air rushed into those delicate parts, and felt like a mass of minute but sharp & forked poniards." www.abc.net.au/ rn/ talks/ firstper/ stories/ s1308221.htm (Thursday 21/04/2005 at 10.45am, as part of Life Matters, in Real Media Format) www.abc.net.au/ rn/ talks/ firstper/ audio/ firstper_21042005.ram Read by Kate Roberts Also at www.wesclark.com/ jw/ mastectomy.html - the full letter www.asylumeclectica.com/ morbid/ archives/ morb0801.htm — a brief excerpt given at the entry for August 7, 2001 Welcome to Tit-Bits, a website for women with breast cancer www.titbits.ca (this site requires the latest flash drivers) Here you can:  : : Share your thoughts and feelings about breast cancer with other women;  : : Post art work, poetry, and other ramblings about living with breast cancer;  : : Exchange practical titbits for surviving breast cancer;  :  :Download cool creative projects to help with the healing process; Get Tit-Bits - hip, hand-knitted breasts - [shop, not patterns] www.titbits.ca/v1/tb_shop.html Knitting Patterns www.straw.com/cpy/ patterns/ cot_chenille_boob.html www.knitty.com/ISSUEfall05/ PATTbits.html PDF of knitting pattern knittwotogether.typepad.com/ TitBitPattern.pdf A sort-of-related clothing company www.toughtitties.com www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=Going%20Amazonian www.flickr.com/ photos/ spike55151/ 50874304 www.flickr.com/ photos/ 18575352@N00/ 90232901 An alternative to the knitted version www.sff.net/ people/ lucy-snyder/ brain/ 2006/02/ tit-bits.html Comments, discussion, etc. www.everything2.org/index.pl?node_id=1779808&lastnode_id=169667 Ah, chemo; Yes, chemo: Can't live with it; Can't live without it. www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=chemotherapy This links to a bunch of personal stories, comments and definitions {If my courage fails, this might be an alternative to the usual injections: www.everything2.com/ index.pl?node_id=1323675 } Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero Enjoy today, trust little to tomorrow. From Horace's Ode I. xi. 8. You can translate it literally as pluck the day. Not to be confused with carpe deum which means "God is a fish" [See also www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=583853 ] Ah, but I am torn in warring pieces. Hope/relief war with fear, frustration, anger at myself for what I haven't got done in the interval since my last illness; grief wells up with reminders of my mother's and my partner's deaths (anniversary) and flows together with grief for my body - to be mutilated again - for my strength, and growing hope I had of getting clear of shadows of despair, for the world and our society that seems to be heading in a disturbing direction instead of the great possibilities that could be opening up.
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