Agreed. I’ve never watched this show before, but I am tempted to watch these eps because I crave to see how my family’s experience compares/contrasts with others. Fortunately for Bruce, it, outwardly, looks like his family is being a lot more supportive than some of the siblings of my family was with my family member.…

Wow, my Dad is not the only one. He LOVED Schlesinger back in the 90s and he’s a fairly liberal guy. He just connected with her spewings of distorted personal responsibility. After one too many of my Dad's references to Schlesinger and her “brilliant advice” my teenaged/early 20s budding feminist self started…

Albee put in an annual presence (as judge) at my college’s theatre department's production design contest. He’s famously ornery, so we always expected him to be dickish. So, we were always pleasantly surprised whenever he showed some warmth and graciousness. But I don't ever recall him ever being as awful as he was…

Other than being a HUGE Dan Savage fan, I'll watch this for Martha Plimpton alone. Oh, and for Stan because it'll be part of my mourning Mad Men process.

The mode of excising the tumor (lumpectomy vs. mastectomy) doesn't have any bearing on the medical oncology aspect of things. Whether or not a woman needs chemo all comes down to the tumor profile that comes out of the characteristics that are presented in your tumor's pathology report. There are a variety of…

It all comes down to tumor profile. I would think that most DCIS is at least surgically removed via lumpectomy, but if the tumor profile suggests that it's an aggressive form, they are likely to suggest radiation and, in rarer instances, chemo.

True. I think the awareness goes go too far. I'm already dreading next October. But, other hand, it was due to people (Tig Notaro, specifically) talking about their own experiences that prompted me to give myself thorough self breast exams and to get so very well acquainted with the girls that when I did feel…

Interesting. I had a lumpectomy and spent all of those months of chemo contemplating a double mastectomy. After consulting so many med. oncologists and breast surgeons about whether it made sense to go with mastectomy, I finally decided not to for the time being. My breast surgeon (one who did the lumpectomy)…

Oh my lord, I love this! I absolutely adored her memoir/one woman show, "And God Said, Ha!" and I'm so glad I'd read it years ago. It's helped me through my own ordeal. :-)

Yeah, I've faithfully been doing MyFitness Pal for a few months now and although I'm pretty honest with myself. Once in a while I'll omit a thing or two because I'm just too lazy to figure out how to count it. Example: Last night I had the crust from my husband's piece of pizza. I guess I could have weighed it before…

Yeah, I'll do a heeled boot or wedge, but I avoid anything over an inch or inch and half and with out a solid foundation. But I do it out necessity/laziness. Regular length pants are just a bit too long unless I have some kind of heel to my shoes.

Thanks! I'll check it out.

I spent my formative heels training years in San Diego. That may explain a lot.

Hmm...those examples are all un-fun ladies things for me. So, I avoid most of them: Especially high heels, i.e. torture feet distortion devices. But the lady stuff I do like: jewelry, styling my re-growing hair, fun socks, manis/pedis, spa treatments... to name a few.

Agreed. All of this has been carefully orchestrated (as is most entertainment industry fodder), so I've just been rolling my eyes at all the theatrics. The only reason I've been paying attending to this particular Hollywood master publicity manipulation is because trans issues and activism is something that my family…

Welp. I'm done with this show. I'm not even a big Der or MerDer fan, I just can't stand really bad and manipulative writing. I know, this is a soap opera, but Shonda is better than this. Or maybe she's not. I can't really stand her other shows for similar reasons.

Unfortunately, that was how it was presented to my sister. If she had been presented with better data than she could have saved herself a lot of pain and two separate surgeries.

Yeah, I feel you. I may have to have my ovaries removed, and my reproductive organs are all sorts of messed due to hormone suppressing BC treatment. I try not to give it too much thought because it's beyond me, but the fact that having a kid myself was pretty much taken off the table does make my heart ache from time…

I don't know, maybe it's because I'm a worst-case-scenario worrier (for pretty good reason), but I would definitely check out what the fuck is going on.

Yes, that stuff bothered me as well. I just can't take someone seriously when they get into all of that pseudo/false science mumbo-jumbo.