For anyone who missed Angelina Jolie’s May 14, 2013, NY Times Op-Ed My Medical Choice, she announced her prophylactic (preventative) mastectomies. Now that people have stopped asking my opinion about her letter, I have… Read more My medical choice is different than Angelina Jolie’s →
Chemotherapy stole my concentration, compassion, and creativity. I came home from chemo treatment to find my brain ransacked. Neurons scattered everywhere. My orderly mental filing cabinet of memories ripped apart and discarded in… Read more Restitution for chemotherapy’s criminal tendencies →
Mentors show up, and I don’t always recognize it. As a kid, I didn’t appreciate the people who reached out to help me. I was sure they were just interfering. Looking… Read more Mentors light my path like lanterns →
Not many people decline their doctor’s diagnostic tests. I had annual mammograms from age 41. Then, the medical associations’ recommendation changed. Had I followed the new guidelines I’d have been dead in… Read more Conflicts and health are frozen accidents →
Words matter. My resolution for 2013 is to not wage war against cancer, courageous or cowardly. I decline to be a soldier in the army against a disease. Nor will I win… Read more Worlds in our words →
In prior posts mentioning Decker, I mention stumbling upon the love of my life at age 58 as an aside, as if Decker guiding me through the cancer swamp was… Read more Breastless Love, The Man Who Stayed with the ‘Sick’ Woman →
Deborah Sword 