Breast Cancer

Pretty in Pink

Posted by: , October 23, 2009 in 12:27 pm

Hello Readers!  Hello?  Helloooooooooooo?  Drat.  I was afraid this might have happened.  You all jumped ship, didn’t you?  Well, for the two or three of you (my relatives) who still stop in to read Musings of a Disobedient Mom, thank you!  I really do have a legitimate reason for my gross lapse in posts.  In fact, I could even provide you all with a real, illegible doctor’s excuse if you’d like… You see, I was diagnosed with breast cancer on August 17th.  Shocking, right?  Yea…you could have knocked me over with a feather.  Let me briefly explain (and when I say briefly, I mean…thousands of words).

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Breast Self-Exams Saving Lives

Posted by: Juliana Carter, October 20, 2008 in 9:55 pm

We’ve all heard about the importance of breast self-exams (BSEs), but I wanted to tell my personal story without citing facts and figures.  Eight years ago, at the ripe old age of 34, while performing a cursory exam in the shower, I found a lump.  Or I thought I did.  I poked and prodded it for a couple of days and had my husband feel it. 

“Just get it checked out.  It’s probably nothing, but you’ll feel better,” he said.

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Battling Triple Negative Breast Cancer

Posted by: honestbaby, October 6, 2008 in 5:56 am

Nancy Block-Zenna succumbed to breast cancer in August of 2007 at the age of 37. She left behind her husband David and 5 year old daughter Jolie.  For over 2 years, Nancy battled her disease but the odds were stacked against her because she had “triple negative breast cancer”, a virulent form of the disease that is unresponsive to most treatments.

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