a dose of reality... $3,000 and up.sticker shock
choosing a shorter life
love
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Getting to, not the heart of the matter, but the jugular. with diabolical craftiness and words.
"I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood. That the speaking profits me, beyond any other effect... for it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence."
Audre Lorde, from "The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action"
From whence it came.
followers
top resources!
and the beat goes on!
My Visual Aids.
the rhythm here.
- PINK in gender/sexuality/culture.
- HISTORY OF THE PINK RIBBON.
- Think Before You Pink
- Pink Ribbons, Inc
- (femininity)
- (feminism)
- (gender roles)
- (sexual objectification:
- ...example here
- Beauty in the dark.
- (the "Cancer Butch" essay)
- Crunch for the cure.
- Pink ribbon madness.
- Welcome to Cancerland.
- "Quality of Life and POV"
things I've said already.
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- life. and its price tags.
- boycott johnson & johnson!!!
- happy mother's day.
- one person. on a misson.
- gathered blossom.
- renovation. revolution.
- impinged diligence.
- silicone. silk. glass. dreams.
- 2 stories. and waiting.
- secrets. truths. and for the record.
- manifesto. unleashed.
- art. a history.
- vanity.
- a bodice front.
- REAL awareness. and truths.
- tolerant, team rebels.
- basics.
- in lieu of symmetry.
- Tribute to Audre Lorde, poet and warrior. (1934-1992)
- lucky stars and crescent moons.
- unstirred, unsipped sweetness.
- reflections of a historical mystery.
- history of a rebel.
- re-invention.
- the weight of quiet. the possibilities of night...
- winter flowers.
- bridges, drains and bows.
- sunrise, day 2.
- velcro with white- the color of surrender.
- emblazened silver.
- ceiling.
- "treatments"
- memoirs of a night gone by.
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2 comments:
I figure my current regimen costs about $200,000/year Canadian, or slightly less in USD. My costs are covered by Medicare (Herceptin and Vinorelbine) and by my private drug plan (Neupogen). I am very, very lucky.
It all makes me so furious.
Drug companies are evil.
I have metastatic breast cancer, and it costs more than $300,000 a year to keep me alive. And that's not including therapy (another $35,000/year) and massage therapy (insurance pays for 12 visits, I pay the rest).
Read the details on my blog:
http://www.assertivepatient.com/2007/02/the_high_cost_o.html
Jeanne
The Assertive Cancer Patient
www.assertivepatient.com
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