The right breast ((o)) , that is.
The left one will still have to go.
Maybe I'll have a farewell party for it.
And serve scoops of peach ice cream with cherries on top.
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scalp design by Jennifer Berman in jagua ink
taramosalata & other dips; photo by Vera Szabó
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cream puffs, caprese; photo by Vera Szabó
Don't try this at home. Uh, oh, we did.
L the Haircutter in Background
Finished.
design by Jennifer Berman
At medicinal baths, with testimonials from patients
One Feminist's Report on Her Breast Cancer, Beginning with Semi-diagnosis and Continuing Beyond Chemo, w/ a side of polycythemia thrown in **You don't have to be Jewish to love Levy's rye bread, and you don't have to have cancer to read Cancer Bitch *** Cancer Bitch comes to you from S.L. (Sandi) Wisenberg in Chicago
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- Stiff Upper Lip
- The Bad Girls of Cancer
- A Day in Which I Buy a Mastectomy Camisole & Fail ...
- A Nervous Laugher
- The Willy Loman of Female Diseases
- Lesser of Two Evils
- A Filling Without a Sandwich
- Thanks, Britney
- Gotta Date
- The Other Hand
- In the Office of the Plastic Surgeon to the Stars/...
- Lump in the Throat/Hail to Tricky Dickie/Marbles i...
- Confusion sets in
- Activism
- Public and private
- Doing well
- Driving to Distraction
- I Am Milked
- Benign!
- Telling
- Austro-Hungarian Empire/Breast Grid
- An aside: Today I am a Unitarian.
- Jews and Jesus, Death and Taxes
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Cancer Bitch recommends these links:
- Alternet.org
- As the Tumor Turns
- Being Cancer--its on-line book club discusssed my book.
- Big Grrls DO Cry: queer life meets precarious life
- Black Gyrl Cancer Slayer
- Breast Cancer Action
- breastcancer.org
- Chemo Chicks
- Chronic (Illness) Babe
- Code Pink women's peace group
- Collaborative on Health and the Environment
- Colon cancer cowgirl
- Earth Henna
- Friends of Cancer Bitch on Facebook
- Funny Cancer shirts and mugs
- Gayle Sulik, Pink Ribbon Blues
- Geezer Sisters (tho' only written by one of them)
- Get Real About Breast Cancer (w/ pic of Breast Cancer Barbie)
- Gilda's Club
- Goodbye to Boobs (by a pre-vivor)
- Humerus Cartoons
- I got the cancer (lymphoma)
- Mamawhelming
- Organic Consumers Assn.
- Our Bodies, Our Blog
- Paula Kamen
- Planet Cancer
- Recovery on Water
- S.L. Wisenberg/Red Fish Studio
- Skin Deep: un/safe cosmetic list
- Stacey Richter's Land of Pain
- Swimming in the Trees: author Jessica Handler of Atlanta
- Tara Ison
- Terry Tempest Williams
- The Assertive Cancer Patient
- The Cancer Culture Chronicles
- The Fifty-Foot Blogger, another denizen of Fancy Hospital
- Whirled News--better than the Onion
- Women & Children First bookstore
NOTATE BENE
Everything here is as accurate as I could make it. Occasionally I've changed identifying details when writing about others.
Links to audio and video
from my Farewell to My Left Breast party
taramosalata & other dips; photo by Vera Szabó
Cancer Bitch--first design
Click on photo for Cancer Bitch reading dates
Farewell to My Left Breast Party
cream puffs, caprese; photo by Vera Szabó
April 12, 2007--The Making of the Mohawk
Don't try this at home. Uh, oh, we did.
The Mohawk Profile
L the Haircutter in Background
The Mohawk Demure
Finished.
Summer henna-wear
design by Jennifer Berman
Life after cancer, Budapest, July 2009
At medicinal baths, with testimonials from patients