Author: Anne

But I’m not on my own. In between packing, moving and selling our house, I haven’t had time to even think about my upcoming tissue flap surgery, but as I write this now, we’ve packed up all our personal belongings, put the few furniture pieces we kept in storage and had a successful closing on…

Having made the decision to finally go ahead with tissue flap surgery, I had been thinking about (kinda dreading) how I wanted to tell my family and friends. I was certainly not going to have them discover my plans by reading this blog, although that certainly would be easier. (Like breaking up with someone on…

Ah, spring. That sweet time of year when the birds start looking for singing contracts again, green leaf buds are starting to sprout (the ones on trees-since this is CO, I feel the need to distinguish), and your (insert favorite baseball team here) are gearing up for a loooonnnnggg season of playing some hardball. Oh,…

I told her that I did not want porn star boobs. Repeatedly. Guess what I got? Now, boys and girls, don’t get too excited…I am likely the only one who sees them that way. Ha! But arguably, I’m really the only one who matters when it comes to how I see them. She, on the…

I used to get so frustrated when the few news articles that talked about the BRCA mutations focused primarily on healthy women choosing to get prophylactic double mastectomies. Willingly, these brave (crazy?) women in their 40s, 30s and yes, even 20s were choosing to remove their breasts; not because they had been diagnosed with breast…