The Latest PET Scan: NED! 最新のPETスキャン結果が最高！
The best news ever so far! The latest PET scan that I took on…
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Great results! 良いお知らせ！
I am very excited to be able to write the excellent results of the…
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Completing resolution of yr 2019. 2019年の今年の目標達成
Completing resolution of yr 2019. 2019年の今年の目標達成 My resolution for the year 2019, I have…
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YKK website about Relaxip. YKKアメリカに掲載
YKK® zipper company’s website now has a story of Yoko and Relaxip. Yoko Katz:…
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A big cynical timing 最高に皮肉なタイミング
I am emotional, upset, unsure, panicky, and I cry here and there with my friends and colleagues, but I have been working on this big project for the last 5 years and it is almost ready, a very ironic timing ever. I have been wanting to help mastectomy post-operation patients with a special blouse, called Relaxip. I will be running a fundraising campaign in October, Breast Cancer Awareness Month, to lower the price of the product to serve more patients. Stay tuned! But how it came to this timing is so ironic and cynical. I cannot laugh about this how bizarre it is.
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The result came out 検査結果が出ました
[Update of the new lump] The doctor told me the result was cancer. I…
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My Story Hits on Amazon! アマゾンで発売！
Many thanks to Marquina Iliev-Piselli! Her book, Tough: Who Survived Cancer is now on Amazon, and you can find my cancer story in it.
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A new lump 新たにしこり発見
It is any survivor's nightmare to find a new lump from a previously treated area, and it appeared on mine last Wednesday, August 28, 2019. My heart jumped and I stopped breathing. No, this cannot be real. Unfortunately, only my son was available as his school had not started yet and he was the only one I could talk to confirm it. I hesitated at first... But I needed someone to tell me if there was something. He said there was something. I called my doctor's office to get the first available appointment: in 10 days.
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Coping with Anxiety. 不安と向き合うには
Check this out! For cancer patients, this TED Talk has great contents! The three things Dr. Olivia Remes says help coping anxiety, I found help cancer patients who face a great deal of anxiety. (Photo during my cancer treatments) (日本語は後に）Three things are: To feel that you have the control of your lifeForgive yourselfFind Purpose, feeling that you can contribute to someone
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5-Year Mark on Breast Cancer! 祝・癌宣告から5年
Today, I marked 5-year since my breast cancer diagnosis! Amazing! (日本語は後に）
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SHARE program 乳癌卵巣がん患者さん向けの冊子
（In Japanese at the end. 日本語は英語の後にあります。） I am on the face of the SHARE ovarian and breast cancer support group's brochure for Winter (January - April program). I did not know how much it helped me to be able to talk to people who had been through breast cancer before me. I hope you will find a comfortable group to talk to. It is such a big relief to know that when I say a couple of words, there are people say "I know what you mean. YES, I have been there."
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Year 2019's Resolution 今年の目標
A happy healthy new year to you. (Japanese at the end: 日本語は英語の後）
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