The weekend prior to my surgery, Mr. Agency and I had planned to get together. It was tough to coordinate our schedules, though, since his work frequently required him to attend late-night meetings and events. Mr. Agency suggested meeting at 10:00pm on Saturday night. I didn’t particularly want to go out that late so I […]
After meeting Mr. Agency at the Masquerade Party, we became friends on Facebook. That led to an email exchange, and then we began texting each other. Mr. Agency: Will you be heading to the event at the rooftop on Wednesday? I hadn’t planned to go. But, I knew that two of my friends would be […]
I find myself being able to see the light at the end of the tunnel. I’m halfway through chemotherapy. Halfway. Three down and three to go. The end is in sight. How did my third round go? It was…different. I learned that my iron and red blood counts were low from hemorrhaging after my second […]
The middle of July found me wondering if Mr. Exec and I could work in any capacity. My uncertainty about what I wanted from Mr. Exec was put on the back burner, though, when I received a call from my breast surgeon. A second area of cancer had been found. There wasn’t a question that […]
Her hair is gone now. In only four days, she has lost half of her long, thick red mane. She donates the rest to Locks of Love and shaves her head. She thinks that losing her hair will make her incomprehensibly sad, and yet, it doesn't. She finds a way to rock the G.I. Jane […]
I had thought that June 22, 2010 would be a memorable day in my life because that was the day I had been diagnosed with breast cancer. Now, I wondered if I would also remember it as the most bizarre day I had ever spent with Mr. Exec. I had just watched him grab another […]
I had just been diagnosed with breast cancer several hours ago. Now, I was at an event with Mr. Exec, watching him grab another woman’s ass not once, but FIVE, times. I said nothing to Mr. Exec since it wasn’t worth it. I went up to his best friend, Best Boy, to tell him that […]
On June 22, 2010, I received the call from my doctor, informing me that I had early-stage breast cancer. When I hung up the phone, I called two of my best friends. Although I had plans that evening to go to an event with Mr. Exec, my girlfriends and I decided to meet so that […]
She feels like she’s looking through a kaleidoscope, only no turn of the wheel ends up on a pretty picture. No flowers. No butterflies. No vistas resembling a peacock’s plume. “We can’t give you the easier chemo,” her oncologist says as tears stream down her face. “Why am I finding this out now? Why did […]
I was up in Friendship Heights last week, when I received the call from my oncologist's office. The physician's assistant tried as kindly as she could to break the news to me: So…the lab finally got back to us with the results. You're HER2 positive. [HER2 is one of the most aggressive forms of breast […]