A Diet to Die For! Breast Cancer in Canada.

I don’t have too much to report or talk about these days … since I didn’t go through chemo either before or after surgery, I’m happy to report that I’m still alive thankfully.

My next mammogram is due in September … I don’t hold much faith in them since it didn’t find my 3 cm tumour last year … if it weren’t for the excrutiating pain I was in, I would likely be none the wiser sadly.

I do have interesting news I’ve been hesitating to write about … it’s sex and sexuality after breast cancer and a radical mastectomy.

My hormones seem to be going backwards … I have the same sex drive I did when I was 25! I hope that’s not indicative of passing time … meaning  I’ll reach puberty at 65  and start playing with dolls again at 80.

A friend suggested that I consider writing about sex because there may be many women who don’t feel like a “woman” after losing one or both breasts. I feel phenomenally well sexually but my self-image is still slightly skewed … that’s probably the hard part: matching how you feel with what you feel.

Any other women in a sexual conundrum? Please share your story … I can’t be the only one in overdrive

In today’s local newspaper, I noticed a tiny article about a new site for cancer called http://www.cancerview.ca.

I poked around for a minute or two and then clicked on the “About this Site” link and see that it’s a federally funded site, which appears to link (or tries to link) all the Canadian cancer sites together.

My first thought is do we really need another cancer site? And in this economy, do we really need to see our tax dollars going to this type of web site? If someone doesn’t know how to use a search engine or the Blue Pages of their phone book, they are certainly not going to know how to find this new web site.

Dear Prime Minister: please stop funding these fringe web sites that no one will ever use — cancer may be in all our communities, but I don’t need a “community of cancer [victims or survivors]” in order to feel like I belong somewhere.

It would be nice if all web sites funded partially or wholly through federal tax grants would link to each other, rather than throw money at something new that should be an automatic courtesy.

Oh, for a few dollars more, I’m surprised that no one thought of registering cancerviews.ca (the plural) since it appears to be available as well — it’s an extra few bucks and could easily be redirected to the correct site.