Cancer Mom

Originally diagnosed BRCA in 2004, NED for almost 5 years, Mom to a baby girl, getting my house in order before I go.

[Cancer Mom @cancermama]

Boston T red line delay. guy hit head at harvard sq. Bad enough to need paramedics.

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Just ran into boston avon 3 day. Thanks for walking!

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Walking through newton cemetery. Very nice... Thinking about buying a plot. Wonder how much it costs.

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Working on an interesting non.profit idea to help young families with a stage iv parent.

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Birds nesting in neighbor's floodlights. Think that it's morning at 1am. They are going to die because they will never sleep. Humans suck.

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More on poisoned water in this Frontline special website - http://is.gd/q8dO #environment

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Pharmaceuticals in our drinking water might be one explanation of all this BRCA showing up - http://is.gd/1TNN

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What is wrong with our environment? Especially L.A. (which is where *I* lived for 20 yrs, BTW). A 10 year old with BRCA - http://is.gd/AO9N

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RT @BreastCancer411 Common anti-viral drug may help fight cancer - share with your doctor: http://is.gd/zTWw

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Tough telling friends about my new status. They are very supportive, but I know this new knowledge now colors all our conversations.

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Interesting NYT article about Avastin and the out of control prices - http://is.gd/zWTT

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Checking out http://www.mbcnetwork.org/ for more information about their conference in Boston on Saturday

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Weaning is hard going... but we're getting there.

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Talked to the lactation consultant about weaning... not looking forward to unhappy baby.

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Got the official news yesterday. 2 liver mets. Hoping we can ablate them. http://is.gd/wVsT

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Threw out my back. Argh.

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Working on organizing the finances for the family. Good starter article about what to do and how to do it here - http://is.gd/w5NG

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Off to bed. Hoping the DD sleeps through the night for once.

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Nice parody of #swineflu twittersteria http://is.gd/w0rp

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And here's the list of locations and desserts... some of them look really great http://bostonbakesforbreastcancer.org/restaurants.php