A Diet to Die For! Breast Cancer in Canada.

Digital mammography doesn’t appear to be available in Canada yet, or at least I couldn’t find any sources.

As you can see from the photograph below, there is a clear advantage to having mammograms digitally,  rather than the archaic way we currently have.  And if you’ve read from my About Me page, I’ve had annual mammograms which didn’t find the cancer — thank goodness it was painful, as I may never have found it otherwise.

The article the above photograph refers to an article I found in Star-Gazette (Elmira, NY) entitled New digital mammography equipment could help many women. An excerpt from the article:

” … In 2001, the National Cancer Institute enrolled 49,538 women who had no signs of breast cancer for a Digital Mammographic Imaging Screening Trial at 33 sites in the United States and Canada …”

This is obviously great news for women, and I hope this will become available at all North American hospitals.

I had the staples for 5 weeks, was on antibiotics for 4 weeks and it’s been about 7 weeks since I’ve had the mastectomy.

I had a bizarre complication (breast tissue up to my neck!) which caused the surgeon to take a wee bit more skin than he would have liked.

This complication, in turn caused my incision to weep … and weep … and weep.

I thought to myself I’m such a leaky bitch

But I digress …

The weepiness is due to gangrene … yuck!

So every day I have a nurse come in to change the dressings and show me the lovely green liquid coming out of my body.

Thanks, but I’ll pass on the green inspection Ms. Nurse. Oh and the drama between the nurses! One nurse says the other nurse should be doing one thing and the other nurse whines about something else … geez, I’m just the patient … I’ve got enough stress in my life without having to worry that the nurses are battling each other and may not be getting my care right.

As one nurse says, do you hear me?

I still haven’t really looked at my breastless chest yet … but I’ll save that discussion for the shrink.