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Jennifer Douglas

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How can we enhance our early stage breast cancer survivorship? What will make a difference in our lives as we move from active treatment into survivorship? #bcsm

Enhancing Early-Stage Breast Cancer Survivorship: Guidance from ASCO

What is the latest in early-stage breast cancer survivorship? In May 2024, ASCO provided updated guidance for clinicians and survivors.

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Jennifer Douglas

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2 years

After treatment, I put away my long dresses, not feeling like they were “me” anymore. I didn’t know who I was. Last night, after encouragement from Dave, I put one on for a party. It’s been 3 years and while I’m not the same woman, I am me. #cancer

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2 years

Just got my pathology results! It was a benign fibroadenoma!! Yay!!!! #bcsm

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2 years

The polyp removed during my colonoscopy was pre-cancerous. Thank goodness I didn’t wait until I was older to get my colonoscopy. #cancer

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1 year

Mammogram all clear! Woohoo!! #bcsm #dcis

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2 years

Surgery went well and I’m now home relaxing! Thanks for the encouragement, prayers, and positive vibes!

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2 years

Colonoscopy done! Went great. One polyp found and removed. Now for some breakfast!!!

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5 months

Mammogram—- all clear!!! Will meet with surgeon next week to discuss in detail! Woohoo! #bcsm

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@mmejendouglas

2 years

Today is three years since my breast cancer diagnosis. It feels as if no time has passed and also as if an eternity has passed. #bcsm #cancer

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@mmejendouglas

2 years

So, did anyone else get sent home with photos 📷 from their colonoscopy? That was an unexpected souvenir! Oh, and wow, was it clean in there 😂

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2 years

First half of colonoscopy prep done. I can confirm the medicine works. So. Much. 💩

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3 years

2 years ago, I woke up on my birthday, reeling from my breast cancer diagnosis. I had no idea what was ahead, and I was terrified. This weekend, Dave took me out to a fancy French dinner and we enjoyed the food and the time to reflect. Here’s to another year of life! #bcsm

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2 years

Biopsy is all done! It went smoothly and the entire team did a great job keeping me comfortable! I’m now relaxing at home. #bcsm #dcis

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@mmejendouglas

2 years

Telling me something is “not a big deal” when I’m calling to tell you it is, doesn’t help me feel supported and heard as a patient. If it’s a big deal to me, then it’s a big deal. Period.

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Jennifer Douglas

@mmejendouglas

4 years

Just got the news that my one year mammogram and ultrasounds were clear!! Yay!!!! #bcsm #mammogram #breastcancer

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Jennifer Douglas

@mmejendouglas

1 year

Being an introvert means sometimes you go upstairs, close the door, and hang out in your room to recharge. #quiet

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Jennifer Douglas

@mmejendouglas

11 months

@Liz_ORiordan I’m so sorry. Thank you for educating us and sharing. Wishing you all the best as you endure more treatment. 💗

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@mmejendouglas

2 years

The theme of the day is emotionally processing the last 8 weeks of “do I have cancer (again) or not?” Send Kleenex, chocolate, a cozy blanket, and perhaps a glass of wine!

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@mmejendouglas

2 years

Presenting my incredible support system!!! My husband and two sons have been lovingly supporting me, even before my cancer diagnosis. They are amazing! They keep me laughing, bring me water and heating pads, and surround me with love!

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Jennifer Douglas

@mmejendouglas

3 years

Ice cream-- probably not the best way to deal with cancer emotions, but let's be realistic. Sometimes after a rough day of appointments, scanxiety or bad news, a lovely bowl of ice cream is what it takes to put a smile on my face. #cancer

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2 years

I’m officially done with this summer of in-between! Had a check in with my oncologist and there’s nothing more I need to do except keep up with my imaging schedule! Woohoo!! #bcsm

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Jennifer Douglas

@mmejendouglas

9 months

Four years ago this evening I went to bed with anxiety, knowing my results appointment was the following day. Tomorrow is my 4 year cancerversary. Tonight I go to bed, grateful and thankful for the days of joy and hope since that anxious night. #bcsm

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Jennifer Douglas

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3 years

My eldest son, Ken, has made his college decision. He is @BoiseState bound! Going to study Computer Science in the fall. We are so proud of him!

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@mmejendouglas

5 months

Mammo done…. Now we wait….

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@mmejendouglas

2 years

“Mammogram day” otherwise known as “What will the rest of my summer look like day?” #bcsm

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4 years

@TeachMrReed Embrace asynchronous learning! Students and families need this flexibility! Our school is virtual only and all resources are available on demand.

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@mmejendouglas

2 years

Lumpectomy for suspicious mass scheduled for next Thursday! So happy my surgeon could get me in so quickly! Yay! #bcsm

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@mmejendouglas

5 months

Feels like a brand new year after the all clear mammogram results!!

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Jennifer Douglas

@mmejendouglas

2 years

Recovery day 6. Still healing physically, mentally and emotionally. I don’t have the energy to read, which is a cue that this time to heal is critical. #recovery

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@mmejendouglas

2 years

Getting ready to to head out this morning. Prayers and positive thoughts appreciated! #bcsm

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@mmejendouglas

2 years

I “almost” canceled my hair appointment to take care of all of the other things I need to do before Christmas. Then I thought of the ✈️ announcement “put on your own mask first”. Getting my hair done isn’t the same level of urgency, but the principle is!

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Jennifer Douglas

@mmejendouglas

3 years

2 Year Mammogram : ALL CLEAR!!! Yay!!!! #bcsm

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@mmejendouglas

2 years

Ok so I got my results. It’s a spindle cell lesion but the pathology board doesn’t know if it’s benign or malignant. So, out it must come. So not terrible but not great. #bcsm

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@mmejendouglas

2 years

Please stop yelling DCIS patients their cancer isn’t cancer. Ugh. Non invasive doesn’t mean not cancer. We remove non invasive skin cancer and still call it cancer. This isn’t helpful to us when we’re dealing with our treatment options. Ok. Rant over. #bcsm

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@mmejendouglas

2 years

It’s been 24 hours since I found out I need a biopsy. How am I doing? Thank you all for your good thoughts, encouragements, and prayers. Really appreciate it! I’m grateful I already have a surgeon I trust. Not excited, but doing ok. #bcsm

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Jennifer Douglas

@mmejendouglas

3 years

Today was rough. And not because I have a follow up mammo tomorrow. This is going to a tough week. Send all the prayers and good vibes my way please 😀 thank you!!

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Jennifer Douglas

@mmejendouglas

2 years

Biopsy now scheduled for July 1, at my preferred location. I’m not happy about this next step, but I trust my team, so here we go! Now, on to more fun things- like vacation!!!! #bcsm

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@mmejendouglas

2 years

So.. a biopsy is definitely in my future. Surgeon agrees with radiology (which I thought he would) so time to get that scheduled. Did I mention I hate biopsies??? Oh wait, I think I have said that before #bcsm

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@mmejendouglas

2 years

I’m thrilled that my pathology was benign, butI’m still under strict activity restrictions from my surgeon. And I just might be a little (a lot) prickly if someone might imply this is a “relaxing vacation”.

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Jennifer Douglas

@mmejendouglas

2 years

Treated myself to a shampoo and blow dry today. Feeling much more human!

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@mmejendouglas

2 years

I’ve definitely underestimated the stress my family is feeling as the biopsy approaches. It is… tough around here.

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Jennifer Douglas

@mmejendouglas

3 years

1 1/2 year bilateral Mammogram (and surprise ultrasound) were benign!!!! YAYAYAYAYAYAY!!! #cancer #breastcancer

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@mmejendouglas

2 years

So much of cancer survivorship is learning to live in the "in-betweens." Are we in-between imaging, results, surgery, treatments? Right now, I'm in-between the biopsy and results. What do I do with myself? #bcsm #cancer

Cancer Survivorship: Living in the In-Between

When I finished breast cancer treatment, I looked forward to getting back to normal. Instead, I've learned to live in the in-between.

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@mmejendouglas

9 months

@DrEricDing I tried it once. Didn’t work. Went back to to behind the counter Sudafed.

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@mmejendouglas

5 months

Today’s on #WorldCancerDay I take a moment to thank my amazing family for their unwavering and consistent support. I couldn’t have gotten through it without you!!

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@mmejendouglas

3 years

My cooking supervisor! #beagle

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@mmejendouglas

2 years

Diagnostic mammogram scheduled in June for what will be my 2.5 year follow-up! Hoping for a very uneventful scan… #bcsm #dcis

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@mmejendouglas

3 months

As a cancer survivor I think we should get a pass at all the other hard things life can throw at us. Can someone one work on that please??. The last few weeks have been HARD. And it has nothing to do with cancer. But— today I sat down to write. So that felt good.

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Jennifer Douglas

@mmejendouglas

1 year

Will I miss #scanxiety every 6 months? Nope! Am I nervous about going to annual diagnostic imaging? Yep! Do I trust my breast surgeon’s plan? 💯! Will I do my self-exams monthly? Yep! Now excuse me as I plan out the next year of my life 🎉

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Jennifer Douglas

@mmejendouglas

1 year

Sent these boys to the store for bagels and they came back with these!

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@mmejendouglas

1 year

@DrEricDing @UnitedHealthGrp This is completely awful.

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Jennifer Douglas

@mmejendouglas

1 year

California is all or nothing. Either we have no rain, or we have ALL the RAIN, ALL at ONCE. #LARain

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@mmejendouglas

2 years

Tonight, as I was hosting a support group chat on zoom- my fantastic son put ornaments on our tree! I love decorating week in our home!!

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@mmejendouglas

2 years

All the things I can do to prep are done. Now I relax and wait to see if all is in order for Thursday!

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@mmejendouglas

2 years

Stitches are out and I have clearance to walk again!! Yay!! #bcsm

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@mmejendouglas

11 months

Breast cancer sucks. Please keep @Liz_ORiordan in your mind as she deals with another recurrence. And keep checking yourself. #bcsm

Dr Liz O'Riordan

@Liz_ORiordan

11 months

🧵There’s no easy way to say this, so I’ll get straight to the point. My breast cancer is back. I’ve got another local recurrence. I found the nodule 3 weeks ago…

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Jennifer Douglas

@mmejendouglas

1 year

My wonderfully talented mother in law made me this quilted wall hanging in honor of my debut book. I can’t wait to hang it when I get home!! Isn’t it beautiful?

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Jennifer Douglas

@mmejendouglas

1 year

My ARCs arrived!!! They are so pretty!!! #bcsm @boldstorypress

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@mmejendouglas

2 years

It’s always a good day when your primary care doctor says your labs look great! Now to see what the radiologist has to say after my mammogram on Friday. Hoping for unremarkable and boring!! #bcsm

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Jennifer Douglas

@mmejendouglas

1 year

Working on a new post. Why the word “Just” is a four-letter word especially for patients. It’s “just” a mammogram. We “just” need to do a biopsy. It’s “just” a one day delay for the results. Oh, it’s “just” DCIS. What are your thoughts? Share three with me, and I might include

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Jennifer Douglas

@mmejendouglas

10 months

He’s all moved in and ready to go! We made in home to LA last night to a very quiet house. Let the next phase of life begin!

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Jennifer Douglas

@mmejendouglas

5 months

Annual mammogram is tomorrow. Today’s goal : enjoy and not think about tomorrow and the inevitable wait for results. #bcsm

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Jennifer Douglas

@mmejendouglas

10 months

@LibbyMbc I’m so sorry for your loss. My condolences to you and your family. 💗

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Jennifer Douglas

@mmejendouglas

1 year

Coping with cancer doesn't end when our active treatment finishes. The emotional weight felt more significant when I wasn't busy scheduling appointments.

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@mmejendouglas

2 years

Getting ready to leave for mammogram. Cue Scanxiety right about…. Now. #bcsm

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@mmejendouglas

10 months

I was taking a look at my lumpectomy scars this morning, and then I realized I couldn’t find my 2022 scar. It was totally invisible. Gone. That inconclusive biopsy which led to a lumpectomy left no scar. Yeah my surgeon is amazing! #bcsm

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Jennifer Douglas

@mmejendouglas

2 years

@mssrfcali Love you Stephanie. Praying for a peaceful and comfortable transition for you. Sending you a sunset from yesterday. Thank you for your encouragement and light to me along the way. 💕💕

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@mmejendouglas

5 months

I wasn't prepared to leave the mammogram with a referral for another biopsy. It had been 3 years since my last one and I was hoping for more of a reprive. #bcsm

Another Biopsy: Not On My List of 2022 Summer Fun!

A biopsy wasn’t on my list of summer fun. And yet, here I am, three years after my first abnormal mammogram, facing another biopsy. I’m not excited.

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@mmejendouglas

4 months

Still plenty of anxiety being back in my surgeon’s office.— Even with a totally normal imaging result. Post-treatment anxiety is real… and thankfully pretty fleeting for me this year! #bcsm

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@mmejendouglas

2 years

Fatigue was much better today and I haven’t taken any pain pills. Nice progress from yesterday. We’ll see what tomorrow brings.

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Jennifer Douglas

@mmejendouglas

1 year

Anxiety tip : I did lots of walking (as my energy allowed) during my cancer treatment. It was a helpful way to sort out my thoughts and worries.

Ten Tools I Used To Walk Through Cancer Anxiety

Cancer anxiety can come up during all parts of our diagnosis and treatment journey. Here are ten tools that helped me walk through the anxiety.

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@mmejendouglas

1 year

There’s been quite a bit said about the harms of overdiagnosis. My question this morning, what about the harms of underdiagnosis? Missing a fast growing and aggressive cancer because we don’t use the tools available to diagnose can have a tragic impact. #bcsm

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Jennifer Douglas

@mmejendouglas

2 years

Nothing quite like needing a nap at 11AM to remind you that you had surgery 3 days ago. #recovery

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Jennifer Douglas

@mmejendouglas

1 year

@AshleyGWinter Beyond all the medical tests and the vaginal estrogen recommendationsI would recommend asking about menstrual products. I changed pad brands once and had a similar issue. I discovered I’m sensitive to ones that are too “moisture wicking”

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@mmejendouglas

2 years

In early 2020 I was ready to find a cancer support community but there were none happening due to the pandemic. So grateful to have found this fantastic support. I began, feeling alone, and now know I’m not. Thanks!! #BCSM

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@mmejendouglas

1 year

@AshleyGWinter Told my mom about it and she’s now UTI free!

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@mmejendouglas

2 years

I’m now remembering more clearly that they remove my energy along with the biopsy samples. Oh yeah, if you need me, I’ll be in bed.

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@mmejendouglas

1 year

New day, renewed hope.

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@mmejendouglas

1 year

Today was tough. Emotions were overflowing. I’m grateful for the support I received when my feelings boiled over. There’s probably some writing for me to do to process it. I’m glad the day is done for now. Sleep will help! 😴

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Jennifer Douglas

@mmejendouglas

2 years

For a while, I looked forward to when I would wake up and feel recovered. Then I realized that recovery is a process, not an event. #cancer

Recovery is a Process, Not an Event

Recovery from cancer or a significant injury isn’t an event. We don’t wake up one day and feel completely recovered. Recovery is a process.

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Jennifer Douglas

@mmejendouglas

1 year

If you didn't know we were married before, you'll know now 🥰Matching Douglas tartan hats for the vacation win!

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Jennifer Douglas

@mmejendouglas

2 years

Scanxiety is the emotion I experience every time I approach my follow-up screenings. It is an uncomfortable reminder of my diagnosis. #bcsm #cancer

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@mmejendouglas

2 years

I like to spread my holiday decorating out over a week. This allows me to enjoy the process and not tire myself. #christmas #holiday #fatigue

Progressive Christmas Decorating

Christmasing is not a one-day event in our home. Progressive Christmas decorating is and one of my favorite times of the season.

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Jennifer Douglas

@mmejendouglas

10 months

So sad to read about the passing of @LibbyMbc . May her family find comfort. And can we please find a cure for this horrific disease. #bcsm

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@mmejendouglas

1 year

So sad to read this. Thank you for your research and advocacy.

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Susan M. Love, MD, MBA, who led Dr. Susan Love Foundation for Breast Cancer Research since 1995, steering the Foundation through its innovative and life-changing research and advocacy programs, has died. She was 75. #LegacyofLove #LoveForever

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Jennifer Douglas

@mmejendouglas

3 years

Cancer taught me to be a strong #advocate for things that matter. I didn’t enjoy the breast cancer but I’m grateful for the lessons I took out of it. #bcsm

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@mmejendouglas

2 years

Imaging update : ultrasound done. Radiologist recommends biopsy on suspected fibroadenoma (on my non cancer side) that looks bigger. Hope to meet with my surgeon to discuss his perspective. I’m mostly annoyed because I hate biopsies. #bcsm

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@mmejendouglas

1 year

I’ve been learning I have a new anxiety trigger: indecision. I need to ask myself, if I’m feeling anxious, what decision am I not making? #anxiety #cancer

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1 year

Guilty!

Beagle Facts

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1 year

The acquisition of one #beagle may rapidly lead to the acquisition of more, in 8 out of 10 households. #beaglefacts 📷 @ruthheume / Twitter

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2 years

Please, let’s move away from this “false- positive” dialogue. If I had followed the “every other year”screening advice, my cancer would have grown another year. #bcsm

Half of women will still get false-positive results with regular 3D mammograms

Researchers called the findings of a new study "disappointing,"

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@mmejendouglas

2 years

What are your most triggering #cancer words or statements? For me, it is the term “over treatment”. Since we don’t know which DCIS will progress, perhaps removing it should be called treatment? After all, that’s what we do with non-invasive skin cancer.

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1 year

Thankful for Christmas, family, and my husband’s recent recovery from Covid ( not the Xmas gift we were expecting). #Christmas

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@mmejendouglas

1 year

This dance workout was just what I needed to forget about my #scanxiety for a half an hour. Mammogram this afternoon. #notexcited . #bcsm . It doesn’t get better- I just expect it now.

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@mmejendouglas

2 years

The beagle is “helping” me deal with colonoscopy prep day by eating my instructions. “Sorry, doc, the dog ate my paperwork…”

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@mmejendouglas

2 years

Woke up to this lovely birthday sign on my chair! Love this family tradition passed down from my childhood.

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@mmejendouglas

2 years

I’m working through the edits for my breast cancer book and am seeking some quotes from others to add to my chapter on intimacy. It’s quite telling that the responses I get are 😶. Encouragement? Anyone? Ok thanks in advance! #bcsm

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@mmejendouglas

2 years

@gradydoctor As I was entering the teaching field, I got this advice : Make friends with the secretaries and custodians at every school you’re working in (I was a traveling music teacher). It was by far the best advice I could have gotten.

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@TeachMrReed #truth . Been doing online learning for 13 years with my kids. I can’t believe the schedules I’m seeing being forced on the teachers and students with this new school year. It doesn’t have to be this way.

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2 years

So far, so good! It looks like surgery will be going as planned. Still staying flexible, because that’s essential in #cancer and #surgery !

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2 years

So my husband has a tiny bottle of colonoscopy prep liquid. I’m half his size and they assigned me the giant jug. #notfair Oh well at least I’m done with mine for 5 years.

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2 years

This afternoon was all about scheduling unpleasant things. Like another diagnostic mammogram (for January) and my first colonoscopy (in November). It’s so much fun to be this age….

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