tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-331973 2012-01-18T07:07:34-08:00 All about my circuitous navigation, after being diagnosed with breast cancer, through conventional Western medicine, alternatives to conventional Western medicine, and the ensuing mind/body/spirit explorations and epiphanies (plus numerous digressions). TypePad tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451742569e2016760bddc56970b 2012-01-18T07:07:34-08:00 2012-01-18T07:07:34-08:00

Internet blackout! - Stop Online Piracy Act - Salon.com I hope everyone takes the time to read this. Scary stuff for those of us who believe in the Internet as a source of great freedom and communication for all those...

Jane Underwood tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451742569e20162ffac4f27970d 2012-01-16T08:16:48-08:00 2012-01-16T08:16:48-08:00

I think about life and living every day. These days, those thoughts include more about death and dying, which are not separate from life and living. Life includes death. Living includes dying. I can say this with a smidgen more...

Jane Underwood tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451742569e20168e56a4c63970c 2012-01-12T09:21:25-08:00 2012-01-12T09:21:25-08:00

It's been a while since I've posted here, obviously. Nov. 11th, to be exact. Wow. Two months! But now you know that I am still here, not dead, not even sick or miserable or suffering from some new awful medication....

Jane Underwood tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451742569e2015392f8b3ff970b 2011-11-11T07:42:55-08:00 2011-11-11T15:33:56-08:00

via wavesworld.typepad.com I'd like to share with you the first paragraph (and a link to the rest) of my friend Wave Geber's blog, which she kept posting to until five days before her death from breast cancer last Friday Nov....

Jane Underwood tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451742569e20162fc413bf7970d 2011-11-09T11:37:00-08:00 2011-11-09T11:37:00-08:00

Cells' 'neighborhood' can help prevent breast cancer Good article. Makes me realize, once again, how remiss I have been in my ongoing reluctance to exercise regularly. I used to walk my dog Olivia three times a week for an hour,...

Jane Underwood tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451742569e2015392e17344970b 2011-11-07T19:17:42-08:00 2011-11-07T19:17:42-08:00

The SCAR Project - Images These images of real women and what breast cancer does to their bodies is why I am more interested in spending my time doing serious research about breast cancer treatments. I believe that we women...

Jane Underwood tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451742569e20153925672ca970b 2011-10-16T08:00:08-07:00 2011-10-16T08:01:15-07:00

Back in July, I interviewed a drug policy expert about an apparent change in Justice Department policy that suggested a crackdown on medical marijuana — which is legal in many states but illegal under federal law — might be coming....

Jane Underwood tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451742569e2015435f1d308970c 2011-10-06T13:04:49-07:00 2011-10-07T07:59:39-07:00

It is October. Again. Pink ribbons. Heart wrenching stories of the stricken. Images of courageous smiling bald headed women in pink T shirts. Companies that donate a percentage of product proceeds to research if you buy this or that shampoo,...

Jane Underwood tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451742569e2014e8bf3a7cd970d 2011-10-01T10:18:45-07:00 2011-10-01T10:18:45-07:00

It was somewhere around the year 2000, give or take a year or two this way or that, and I thought, Who has time for cafes anymore? Sure, I had once hung out at cafes writing in my journals, pre-Wi...

Jane Underwood tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451742569e2015435c160bd970c 2011-09-28T09:17:01-07:00 2011-09-28T09:17:01-07:00

In Thailand, an Innovative Fight Against Cervical Cancer - NYTimes.com I am posting this link to an article not about breast cancer but about cervical cancer. Why? Because it's a great example of how simple, relatively inexpensive solutions CAN be...

Jane Underwood tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451742569e2015391d777e0970b 2011-09-24T08:39:49-07:00 2011-09-27T10:21:41-07:00

I believe this is called "cross-posting." (???). It's for industrious but also lazy people who are trying to keep more than one blog going (industrious) but who also don't want to keep more than one blog going (lazy). So they...

Jane Underwood tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451742569e2014e8bc0f661970d 2011-09-22T12:42:59-07:00 2011-09-22T12:42:59-07:00

I haven’t done much to make me look better. I’ve done a whole lot to make me feel better. It took a lot of living for me to get to look like the mature woman in the mirror. At my...

Jane Underwood tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451742569e20154356c6750970c 2011-09-14T08:28:02-07:00 2011-09-14T08:36:01-07:00

Poking around this morning in a folder filled with old "daily writes," I came across this letter that I wrote to the Great Mystery, a bit over a year ago, shortly before my descent into a year that was mostly...

Jane Underwood tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451742569e201539176b900970b 2011-09-09T13:45:30-07:00 2011-09-09T13:47:01-07:00

A week ago I had another "check-in" appointment with my oncologist. He looked at my latest blood tests: CBC and tumor markers (CA15-3 and CEA) and said they were great, as in my grade would be an A+ if were...

Jane Underwood tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451742569e20154350bd0c5970c 2011-09-01T16:05:00-07:00 2011-09-09T13:47:52-07:00

I admit, I do at times get sick of trying to keep this blog going. Must I really continue to write about it (my breast cancer)? Well, no. Nobody is holding a gun to my head. I could stop. Could...

Jane Underwood tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451742569e201539096ac1a970b 2011-08-10T14:25:01-07:00 2011-08-10T14:30:36-07:00

(CBS) The latest "wonder drug" for cancer isn't a drug at all - but exercise. That's what a British cancer charity had to say in a new report detailing the benefits of exercise for cancer patients. . . . ....

Jane Underwood tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451742569e2014e8a81c11a970d 2011-08-09T12:31:54-07:00 2011-08-09T12:33:15-07:00

Here's a copy of an email I got today from an organization that I "joined" and have a lot of respect for. So I am passing it on to you: Dear Jane, Margaret Furlong went to the hospital armed with...

Jane Underwood tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451742569e201539086c47a970b 2011-08-08T10:10:13-07:00 2011-08-08T10:10:13-07:00

Are screening mammograms effective in reducing deaths from breast cancer? The mainstream media and the medical-industrial complex would have you believe that mammograms are the best thing you can do to diagnose breast cancer at an early stage. The theory...

Jane Underwood tag:typepad.com,2003:post-9745317 2011-08-08T06:10:00-07:00 2011-08-08T07:00:22-07:00

Given my six-year intensive foray into the land of doctors, medicine, and disease, I've been reminded of how important it is for SOMEONE to deliver GOOD health and medical information to "the masses." Much of what we read in mainstream...

Jane Underwood tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451742569e20153905fd148970b 2011-08-02T09:29:22-07:00 2011-08-02T09:32:39-07:00

Dr. David Brownstein Reports Spontaneous Regression of Breast Cancer After Iodine via jeffreydach.com I wrote about iodine and breast cancer early on in this blog, but it's time to do another post on it for newcomers. I hope you'll read...

Jane Underwood