While I feel like I’ve dodged a bullet now that the biopsy from my breast came back benign, surviving cancer is still on my mind and in my circle of relationships. I wrote recently of oxygenating your cells as a way to make the body environment inhospitable to cancer growth, and today I want to […]
Category: Natural remedies
Prenatal Vitamin D levels linked to Autism?
Research has shown that many autistic children are born in the month of March. Going backward, this would mean that their mothers were pregnant during the winter months when they might not have gotten enough sunshine on their skin, perhaps meaning that they were vitamin D deficient during the time in their pregnancy for the […]
Cancer-fighting Tip: Oxygenate Cells
I feel so relieved that the results from my recent breast biopsy were negative, but I have been looking into what to do had the test results come back saying something different. One thing I’ve learned about cancer cells is that they are anaerobic; they thrive in an oxygen-poor environment. To make your body more […]
Post-biopsy Recovery
Smaller breasts have more densely packed nerve endings and hence are more sensitive. I never knew that. I learned this as the radiology tech pulled and stretched my breast – and eventually my shoulder, too – through the hole in the lead-lined table and into a position where she could clamp it tightly between paddles. […]
To Biopsy or Not To Biopsy?
Although I am choosing to get a stereotactic biopsy today on (from?) my left breast due to a constellation of stars on my first mammogram, it was by no means a foregone conclusion. There were things to consider first. “So, what is this procedure?” I asked the receptionist at the imaging center when I booked […]
