A Diet to Die For! Breast Cancer in Canada.

A few days ago I received a letter asking if I would participate in a study for the Ontario Breast Screening Program (Cancer Care Ontario).

Of course I filled it out and said yes!

An excerpt of the letter dated March 31, 2011:

“… From time to time, research projects about breast screening make use of the information obtained by the OBSP. You indicated to the OBSP that you are willing to receive information about research. You are being approached for this study because you have had a mammogram at the OBSP and also have had a breast cancer diagnosis…”

I apparently said I would be interested in 2008.

The criteria for this particular study is women between the ages of 50-74 and had a breast cancer diagnosis, and who have told the OBSP they are willing to be contacted about research studies.

If you or someone you know may be interested in providing information to this valuable study, their phone number is 416-971-9800.

Get on the list and be counted! If not for this particular study, the next one or the one after that … they are all valuable!

We need to end this disease as soon as we can!

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