Saturday, March 12, 2016

Three efficient March 10th appointments - with surgeon, breast care coordinator nurse, and volunteer who had breast cancer 22 years ago with a few freebies including little pillows for the car ride home after surgery. Decided with surgeon to take it one step at the time. Need to schedule surgery date in the next few days. Apparently they expect to have openings in about 2 to 3 weeks, or after week 4 to accommodate our little trip. Do the breast conservation surgery to remove lumpy and a few sentinel nodes to check for lumpy’s friends. Apparently I will be injected with radioactive material. I hope I remember to check if I have any X-Men powers then. Within 7 days after surgery, results will be out. That, will be the next tipping point.

Meantime, more inspiration from passionate pioneers.
On the clues Nature has left us, and the amazing normality of most of our 10 to 70 trillion cells:
https://www.ted.com/talks/mina_bissell_experiments_that_point_to_a_new_understanding_of_cancer?language=en

Could your medicine be a cell, not a pill?:
https://www.ted.com/talks/siddhartha_mukherjee_soon_we_ll_cure_diseases_with_a_cell_not_a_pill?language=en

I think mortality's reminder drew me to these, and nudged me to participate:
https://www.ted.com/talks/stephen_friend_the_hunt_for_unexpected_genetic_heroes?language=en

https://www.ted.com/talks/john_wilbanks_let_s_pool_our_medical_data?language=en

https://www.ted.com/talks/jay_bradner_open_source_cancer_research?language=en

http://resilienceproject.me/

http://sharethejourneyapp.org/ (if i get an iPhone)




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