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  • Help me out here, Internets

    Help me out here, Internets

    Surgically enforced early menopause sucks, but soy-based foods help! What are your favorite tofu recipes or soy-based snacks?

  • Medical update

    Medical update

    Another medical post, in which I yammer a bit about the aftereffects of having a hysterectomy. You can skip this if you don’t want to know.

  • The two weeks after surgery report

    The two weeks after surgery report

    A two weeks after surgery status report, with medical deets.

  • More medical thoughts

    More medical thoughts

    In which Anna gets introspective and thinks thinky thoughts. If you don’t know me personally, you can skip this one if you like. This post is mostly about my need to vent about current medical developments.

  • The game plan

    The game plan

    I get to have surgery in November, and the game plan is in place. Also, generating precancerous tissues sucks as a superpower.

  • This just in: well, my week’s been ruined now

    This just in: well, my week’s been ruined now

    If you need me I’ll be over here having had my week completely shot to hell.

  • Breast cancer survivor awareness

    Breast cancer survivor awareness

    Earlier today I had to link again to a post I did earlier this year regarding my take on the memes that periodically go around the social networks (Facebook is where I’ve personally seen this happening but it wouldn’t surprise me if it showed up elsewhere) and encourage women to post cryptic status messages in…

  • In which Anna has something to say about breast cancer

    In which Anna has something to say about breast cancer

    Because another of these appears to be going around Facebook again, Internets, it’s time for me to do another post on the topic of “Please Leave Anna Out of These Status Update Games”. Somebody just tried to loop me into one of these again. I’ve already privately PMed her about that, and this post is…

  • This just in: the biopsy results are GOOD

    This just in: the biopsy results are GOOD

    I got the call this morning from the RN at Evergreen’s breast center, who told me that the results are clean, and that they are likely just the results of passing benign cysts that just sometimes happen in breast tissue. I told her she’d just handed me one HELL of a birthday present and thanked…

  • How the biopsy went this morning

    How the biopsy went this morning

    I posted a bit about this on the social networks, but here’s a somewhat longer report. What I went in for this morning at Evergreen was a stereotactic biopsy. Which basically means, a minimally invasive procedure in which they use targeted imaging and a thin needle. I had to lay face down on a table…