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Hot diggity!
Wow. I didn’t expect to be giddy with relief after the surgeon’s appointment today. Like Cinderella at the ball. Or Dorothy home in Kansas. The three page birth plan is back in force. There will likely...
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Sh*t.
I hate having meltdowns. So I had two on Sunday. Sort of because my neck was killing me and Tylenol doesn’t cut it. And the chiropractor wasn’t in (lazy sod). Retaliated by eating three ice cream...
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It’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to…
So I spent the last two days trying to take a friend’s advice. “Quit feeling sorry for yourself and write something interesting.” He was a little more tactful than that, but I got the message. I did...
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Fear and Its Antidote
I’m afraid. It’s 4 am, I’m watching Downton Abbey for the first time, and can’t keep my mind on it. I’ve looked (yet again) at photos of breasts in various stages of de- and re-construction. I speak to...
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Surgery sucks.
Except when it saves your life. But it’s awful in ways having my appendix and gallbladder out 20 years ago weren’t awful. Those surgeries felt like dental procedures in comparison. Of course, there is...
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“They’re heeere…”
Foobs. Fake boobs. Rising out of nothingness…Suddenly. In Biblical fashion. The surgeons very kindly took me seriously when I said the prospect of traditional dual mastectomy horrified me. They...
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Treat your children well…
I don’t know what I was expecting going into this Angelina Jolie-breast-preservation-mastectomy thing. Or maybe I do, if I get honest. I think I was expecting to look and feel pretty much like I did...
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I’m wounded and can’t get my bra off.
Anyone tired of pain and angst and wimmen’s stuff can go home right now. But I can’t get off this bus and writing’s a distraction, so I’m gonna stay right here and bore y’all to death. I’ve taken the...
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