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Good News | Edward Abbey

Finally got my date for my second mastectomy booked. When I was filling out my paperwork at the start of my cancer treatments in September 2021, I filled out some paperwork in regard to doing genetic testing. I did the testing after finishing my chemo treatments for my breast cancer and subsequently found out that I did have a genetic mutation that made me more susceptible to developing breast cancer.

melissajayne So last May my mom & I had discussion with someone about my genetic results with a nurse from the genetics department from the cancer clinic and she mentioned that I was still at an elevated risk for developing breast cancer in my right breast. So the decision was made that I would be doing a second mastectomy booked. 2d

melissajayne I wished I had known earlier about the genetic anomalies prior to my first mastectomy, but that wasn‘t the case. This mastectomy will be largely preventative so it won‘t be as invasive, but will still require a bunch of time of recovery. I am doing it at this time of year so I can go swimming in the summer months & hv lots of time to recover properly. 2d

Butterfinger I will be thinking of you. Keep us updated. 2d

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dabbe Holding you in my thoughts. 🩶🩵🩶 2d

melissajayne @Butterfinger @dabbe thanks; I will keep you updated. 2d

CarolynM Wishing you all the best for the surgery and recovery 💕 2d

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LatrelWhite

In the Distance | Hernan Diaz

Slow start to this Sunday morning☕️

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LatrelWhite

In the Distance | Hernan Diaz

Cozy night by the fireplace reading always reading!❤️

Ruthiella Perfection! 1w

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Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water | Marc Reisner

Bump 😆

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Schnoebs

Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water | Marc Reisner

My sister took me to the new Barnes and Noble in Wicker Park in Chicago as part of my Christmas present. I got a couple of books from her and then finally broke my ban and bought some for myself. The nonfiction are from Barnes and Noble and the fiction are from another bookstore we hit up!

#bookhaul #haul #nonfiction

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LatrelWhite

In the Distance | Hernan Diaz

These two!!

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Schwifty

The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West | Patricia Nelson Limerick

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This author‘s work is reminiscent of that other western historian, Richard White, and more generally both of these were perhaps forerunners of the Howard Zinn style of historical narrative with a focus on the experience of the people who lived it instead of the deeds of conquering Europeans and later US officials. One of the great tasks of this book is to dispel the mythical western imagery from film and literature that became historical stand-in.

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The Desert: Further Studies in Natural Appearances | John Charles Van Dyke

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Published in 1901, The Desert is one of the first books that wrote about, and espoused the beauties of, (you called it) the desert. Traveling through the American Southwest, and specifically the Mojave, (an experience that probably augmented his post as art advisor to industrialist Andrew Carnegie), Van Dyke points out the vivid and stark beauty of his surroundings, or what he calls “the sublimity of the waste.”

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