Oh hell no...

A new study came out in the New England Journal of Medicine this past week arguing that mammograms cause an over-diagnosis of breast cancer. Excuse me...what?  Are you kidding me? Click the link below to read the article.

http://www.latimes.com/health/la-sci-breast-cancer-screening-20121122,0,6613438.story

I am going to take a wild guess here and say that 1) the people doing to study are guys and 2) they have never know anyone close to them who was diagnosed with breast cancer.

Cancer is cancer no matter what stage it is found and treated. If I had gone in and had my radiologist tell me "Well, it's a small tumor and it may or may not turn out to grow into cancer" I would have still told them to get it the hell out of me. I am not going to take a chance with my life on a "may or may not" discussion about cancer. I'm pretty sure 100% of women/men who have that conversation with their radiologist would not want to take a chance on their life. If my tumor would have been found through an early mammogram, that would have meant I could have kept my boobs, not had chemo and not be on medicine and shots for 5 years. Um, yeah, I am pretty sure that would have been a good thing.

Man, I am one ticked off chick today.

Parenthood

I recently got into watching this season's episodes of the NBC TV show Parenthood. Omar and i first started watching it when it came out a couple of season's ago but never kept up with the show. This season I became interested in it because one of the main characters was diagnosed with breast cancer.  I wanted to see how a TV show portrayed this and if it came close to reality.

It does.

Now the character isn't quite like me. She is a bit older than me (she has a daughter in college but also a young baby), her cancer is 1.2 cm (mine was larger, I think around 3 cm), she has a lumpectomy (I had a double mastectomy) but the feelings, emotions and worries are all the same. If you want to know what it has been like for Omar and I please watch the show. You have a look inside what our life has been like over the past few months. 

I don't know how this season ends. We just watched the episode where she has surgery and finds out about chemo. But, I hope her journey goes as well as mine did.

What to watch on election night...

It's election day! Do you know what you will be watching tonight as the election returns start rolling in? Let me tell you what I will be watching...my son opening his birthday presents! That's right, my son's birthday happens to fall on election day 2012!

Three years ago my son was born. He is the light that brightens my day. He is the reason I have more gray hair now than before. He is the reason I laugh so hard I almost pee in my pants! And most importantly, he fills my heart with more love than I could have ever imagined.

So as you are watching the election day results on tv tonight, I will be watching my son open birthday presents!

Of course, once he is in bed the tv will come on! I mean, really, I am a political junky!