Don't feel bad because if the rumors are true with the first baby, then it's probably true someone else is carrying the Bey-Z spawn this time around too.

I have Everwood on DVD. That's how much I love Chris Pratt. And his TV dad. Yes, I have a thing for Tom Amandes.

You heard correctly. Stephen Sondheim is the best musical theatre composer (and lyricist) ever, in my professional opinion.

Very true. I try not to dwell on what gave me this disease. And, luckily, most days I don't. But I sure as hell will be very careful about any and all hormones in the future.

This is true, but I still think the risk is/was largely understated. I just remembered that I had a few unopened packs of pills. I just fished them out and opened my old Ortho Micronor (progestin only pill - I've been on a few different types (mostly combo) of pills over the years) and its warning literature says:

I'm right with you, I was diagnosed this year (I'm 36 yo) with hormone receptor positive BC and I'm also BRCA negative with no family history. Because they ask (a lot), I had to figure out how many years I was on birth control pills: Due to PCOS I was put on the pill 19 and have mostly stayed on it (with some random…

"There is no sage advice. Cancer is one of the scariest words in the English language. My only advice? Don't let it define you. Don't become a cancer sufferer or a cancer survivor. Be a person who is/was afflicted with cancer. Why are you fighting to live if the cancer is what you are living for?"

I wouldn't be surprised if my being overweight may have contributed to my breast cancer - I'm also in my 30s. I'm 90% ER positive. I've lost over 30 pounds since diagnosis and plan on concentrating on losing the required amount to weight needed so that my fat % is in a good range. It sucks and thank god for…

I'm doing ok. I started the first AC of the ACT part of my chemo treatment last Monday. It wasn't fun and I'm very much not looking forward to the second infusion, but it wasn't horrific either. I can't wait until all this is done.

We've got the two DVRs working over-tme tonight. The Tivo and TWC dvrs (2 tuners each) had to be very creatively programmed. Too bad DVR mastery is not a real job because my husband would be at the top of his field.

It took me getting cancer for my husband to finally get a flu shot. I've been getting them for years....

I was kind of hoping for local anesthesia for my lumpectomy, but I'm now glad that they went for general. And I'm also glad I had a kickass lady anesthesiologist who laughed at my jokes as I was going under (and didn't find it weird that I wanted to talk about that anesthesia article from the Atlantic Monthly that I…

Thank you for you thoughtful and detailed response. I really appreciate. I'm two days out from my lumpectomy. The sentinel node is clean and I'm very thankful but I'm scared to be relieved. I'm scared of the pathology results.

Thank you, Kathy! I really appreciate it. Did you go with a lumpectomy or unilateral mastectomy during your first occurrence? I'm going with a lumpectomy, but I'm so scared of a reoccurrence, that I wonder if a bilateral mastectomy may be the way to go.

God, I wish. I'm under 40 and very luckily detected the breast lump myself. I don't trust my body at all anymore and I'm scared out of my mind for uterine and ovarian cancer. It's tempting to just rip it all out. They really need to develop and go reliable imaging and blood marker test.

Any and all progress sounds great to me. I'm newly diagnosed and there's a good chance that I'll be put on tamoxifen. I've been too scared to read up on its side effects (other than knowing that it's going to fuck up my fertility), so I'm glad there's been a lot of research put towards alternatives to the…

As long as they don't cut this song:

Although, there is some NYC in the movie. I know because I watched them filming in front of my office building.

FNL was good (as was Breaking Bad), but best drama ever? The Wire.

Age: Early 20s