Censored!

Exciting news for the day: I wrote an entry for the Lifetime blog that was censored! Well, not censored exactly, but I chose to withdraw it. This is me being subversive: I critiqued the "breast cancer industry" at large by talking about how much money goes into marketing and how little filters down to actual individuals. I mentioned the bike shop benefit and how I thought that was a successful fundraiser because it was actually benefitting a person, Andrea, and not some large organization that seems to profit from the pink ribbon fad. Needless to say, this was not a big hit with the Lifetime folks, so either I could add something in about how Lifetime's partners during breast cancer month are exempt from my critique, or I could write a new entry. I chose the latter.

Anyhoo, things are going okay. I was in the cancer center last week because I was concerned that I'd developed cellulitis in my lymphedema arm; it was red and warm. I didn't have a fever, but I wanted to make sure. Just to be safe, Carrie started me on antibiotics on Wednesday. I also got approval from my insurance company to get the Procrit shot (not sure why it had been denied in the first place).

I have chemo scheduled for tomorrow; hopefully my counts will be good enough.