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targeting target for breast cancer profiteering
Dear Target, I hate Pinktober. It is a vomitorious b*llshit pink month for a lot of us who have had breast cancer, or are currently undergoing treatment, or live with the metastatic form of the disease. Take your shirt for … Continue reading
Posted in breast cancer, health insurance
Tagged Aetna, boycott target, breast cancer, brian cornell, CNN, fox news, Hoda Kotb, janna potts, jeffrey j jones II, john mulligan, MSNBC, new york times, target, target corporation
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aetna is totally screwing individual subscribers and breast cancer survivors/patients
I wrote recently about groundhog day with Aetna . Sadly, the truth is that Aetna doesn’t want individual subscribers in Pennsylvania any longer. They say they value their subscribers, but really, they don’t. They are over us. (Bastards.) Being an individual subscriber off … Continue reading
Posted in breast cancer, health insurance
Tagged #AETNASUCKS, Aetna, Obamacare sucks, Pinktober
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groundhog day with aetna
I saw the envelope in my mailbox from Aetna today. And I knew, I just knew based on the kind of envelope it was what the contents were. Yup. You got it. Groundhog day health insurer style. At the end … Continue reading
Posted in health insurance
Tagged #AETNASUCKS, Aetna, bloomberg news, class action suit against Aetna, consumeraffairs.com, new york times, philadelphia inquirer, pissedconsumer.com, problems with Aetna, Senator Bernie Sanders, Senator Elizabeth Warren, wall street journal, washington post
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a big bowl of wrong with a sleazy cherry on top
One of the things I dislike is when individuals try to profit from another person’s uncertainty and fear. I also intensely dislike when non-oncology, non-medical professionals try to tell you how to cure breast cancer, especially when their “experience” is … Continue reading
#brave
Truly, no words are necessary. This is just #brave. I have been critical of celebrities fighting breast cancer, but Shannen Doherty gets nothing but #respect. She is one of the only celebrities I have ever seen show the world what … Continue reading
catching the breast cancer “charity” scammers: an opportunity to level the playing field
All good things come to those who wait. Since almost the inception of this blog, I have written about BOGUS BREAST CANCER CHARITIES. I never knew they existed until I had breast cancer. Then like magic they started calling. I … Continue reading
the truth and fear of breast cancer
The blog posts written by breast cancer women are not all pretty. They are raw, emotional, and real. I am no different. For five years you have followed my ups, my downs, my life in my post-breast cancer reality. I … Continue reading
n.e.d. is my friend
Five years. It’s official. I am FIVE years cancer free. N.E.D. or No Evidence of Disease. Yay!!!!!!!!!
five years
Five years ago right now I was a haze of leftover anesthesia and pain meds. Today is June 1st and five years ago now I had a partial mastectomy or lumpectomy. Next week I start my five year tests. Mammogram, … Continue reading
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