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new year, new test
I had a colonoscopy and endoscopy last week. The anesthesia and procedure made me not so hot for a few days but I am glad I did it. Do not ignore doing this. It was the test I was the … Continue reading
flowing stream of consciousness, or doing the emotional laundry
….it’s important to think about are any changes you are planning to make to your figure before then. So what is that about? A dress fitting. Alteration, truthfully. I have never been able to truly buy dresses, especially formal … Continue reading
Posted in breast cancer
Tagged emotional laundry, life after breast cancer, new reality
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rise up
It started with a message from a friend: ** Please Consider Calling / E-mailing for Obamacare** Paul Ryan’s office is conducting a phone poll, hoping to hear overwhelming opposition to the Affordable Care Act. Here’s how you can participate: Call … Continue reading
Posted in breast cancer, health insurance
Tagged breast cancer, obamacare, paul ryan, rise up
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trying to respect the pink sisterhood
The past few days I have been experiencing something new: a fellow breast cancer survivor who has no respect for the pink sisterhood. The proverbial thin pink line of the pink sisterhood is sort of that unwritten rule where you … Continue reading
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
