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A while back I was checking out the career resources section at Chapters. I was startled by the number of books with aggressive titles. Good is Not Enough. Bullet-Proof Your Job. Knock ’em Dead. Power Talk: Using Language to Build Authority and Influence. It struck me that the language of job-hunting is overtly masculine, which […] This morning my phenomenal primary support team – Duncan, GC and Donna – gathered at my place for coffee, and then we headed off to meet with the surgeon, the resident, the intern, the home support nurse (who is a breast cancer survivor herself) and the social worker. (Duncan opted to stay behind and […] I’ve blogged before about my front walkway garden and its invasive goutweed. In fact, it’s not a garden at all, it’s a goutweed patch with a piece of landscaping fabric over it in an effort to stifle the goutweed and keep it from taking over the world. Last summer I felt embarrassed about what […] The hardest part is the fear. Since I don’t know the magnitude of the problem yet – ie, what stage it is, and whether the cancer has spread beyond the original tumour – I sometimes feel very much at the mercy of my worst fears. I was lying in bed this morning thinking about the […] I’m so touched by all the support I’ve been getting from everybody over the past couple of days. It’s overwhelming, and deeply, deeply touching. And it certainly brightens up the darker, scarier corners of my mind. I’m still getting used to the idea that I have cancer. One of the things I’ve noticed is that my […] It all started with a routine mammogram in March, just a few days before I got laid off. The mammogram was no big deal: I’ve had haircuts that hurt more. Did you know that immediately after they do the mammogram, a nurse conducts a physical breast exam? The nurse found a lump, but for some […] Dr. Samantha King, author of Pink Ribbons Inc.: Breast Cancer and the Politics of Philanthropy, spoke about the commercialization of breast cancer at the Centretown Community Health Centre last week. She noted that it wasn’t so long ago that breast cancer carried considerable stigma. Efforts to bring the disease out into the open were highly […] Today was the annual breast cancer run. I like the breast cancer run – the energy is different from any other runs I’ve been in. It’s so positive and warm and good-humoured and communal. I’m on an all-women’s team. Last year we were called Twelve Babes Abreast; this year we’re Twenty Babes Abreast! We’ve got […] I remember when I was a little kid and it seemed I was always in bed whenever it was dark. I believed I was missing all the good stuff, the magical stuff, the secret stuff…I believed the grownups could hardly wait for the kids to go to bed so they could get started on their […] |
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