Tag: cancer

  • RIP Jake Lake

    RIP Jake Lake

    RIP Jay Lake. Many condolences to his loved ones, friends, and fans.

  • In memory of Phillip Weigner

    In memory of Phillip Weigner

    My young cousin Phillip lost his battle with cancer today. Deepest of condolences to his family.

  • Multi-lingual OH hey I got ebook credit! book roundup

    Multi-lingual OH hey I got ebook credit! book roundup

    My latest roundup of books acquired, thanks to an influx of surprise credit from a recent ebook settlement. Special honorable mention goes to “Ah shit, j’ai pogné le cancer” by Maude Schiltz, my first non-fiction book I’m attempting to read in Quebecois French!

  • 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…

  • Well, today just got really, REALLY annoying

    Well, today just got really, REALLY annoying

    Just the other day I was posting to the social networks that I’d just realized that I’d passed the five-year mark since my original breast cancer diagnosis in 2007, and was closing in on five years since I’d been pronounced cancer-free and had commenced reconstruction surgery. (All that got started in 2008, until everything was…