How I came to this blog

For as long as I can remember I had been so excited about my 30th birthday. It was going to be a big year for me, I could feel it. I had no idea a breast cancer diagnosis would turn out to be the reason. I was actually told I had "early breast cancer" at 29, about three weeks before my 30th birthday. What I had is called Ductal Carcinoma In Situ (DCIS), which is also considered "stage 0 breast cancer." While it was caught at the earliest possible stage, and my life was never in immediate danger, I still had to undergo mastectomy, including lymph node removal, and reconstruction. My birthday came and went a couple weeks before my mastectomy. More than once I looked down at the "F 30" on my hospital bracelet and wondered, "where did my 30th birthday go?" This will definitely be an interesting year.















Saturday, April 21, 2012

Knit-a-Boob

This comes slightly too late for anyone to get involved this year but I still want to tell you guys about a relatively new breast cancer awareness event, in partnership with breastcancer.org, called Knit-a-Boob. Yesterday, Friday April 13, supporters gathered at Oak Knit Studio in Brooklyn, to knit "wearable prosthetic breasts for patients and survivors of breast cancer, who have lost their breasts to the disease." As I understand it, this was the second annual occurrence of this event. To learn more...


Posted by at

No comments:

Post a Comment

Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)