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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Happy Healthy New Year to You! 明けましておめでとうございます。
A happy new year! May Year 2017 be a happy and healthier year for you!
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PhD Graduation (with My Handmade Gown)! 博士課程 卒業式
I had a PhD graduation ceremony! I am even more officially, well... I had been since February... but, Dr. Yoko! I started the PhD program in 2001, that is 15 years of my work. I am so proud to be able to come this far. Thank you so much for supporting me, my family, friends, colleagues, my blog readers, and my professors. Along the way, I started to teach Economics at US colleges since 2004, got married, had a baby, had been raising my son in bilingual, got breast cancer, completed chemotherapy, finished reconstruction, completed my dissertation and the graduation ceremony was the closing of the PhD program!
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Feel Like "Normal" Breast ごくごく普通だと感じる再建後の胸
I was digging snow this past weekend and suddenly, I felt like "wow, it is really normal" about my breast, which had been mastectomy and reconstructed. I had no pain, and no pulling while shoveling the snow. I talked about the look of my breast in my last post. This time, I would like to talk about feel of the breast.
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Yes, my lost boob is finally back and complete! おっぱい再現 とうとう完了！
My very last procedure of breast reconstruction: tattooing areola is now completed the reconstruction on the past Friday. I did mastectomy on my left breast on mid June 2014. It became my routine to take a look at my left breast every time I became naked. I almost ignore my original right boob. I always look at my left breast for some moments, I mean, every day for the last 16 months.
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1 Year Anniversary of Breast Cancer Removal Surgery 乳がん摘出手術から1年記念日 Pose#535
Today, I mark the first anniversary of my breast cancer removal. I made it!!! I felt like ROAR, (like Katy Perry)! I am surviving. Coco Rocha's Study of Pose book had a great pose for that: #535.
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"A+ Nipple" 最高級クラスの乳首 Pose#371
At my post nipple reconstruction surgery visit of my doctor, I received an A+ nipple from the doctor. He took off my dressing and told me; "It's an A+ nipple!"
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Day of a Nipple Reconstruction 乳首再建の日
This should be my very last time writing this blog title, it is slightly embarrassing. But it is done!
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Happy Mother's Day 母の日
A happy mother’s day. My son left his mother’s day card that he worked…
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14th Targeted Cancer Therapy & Teaching Tuesday 14回目の分子標的治療 Pose #790
East meets west style. A Cowgirl Japanese.
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Option: A Cold Cap コールドキャップという選択
Keeping hair during chemotherapy, we have an option called a "cold cap." If I had more time to find out about this, I might have had this for me. I knew about this, but I just did not have time to consider and arrange this.
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Teaching Wednesday 水曜日授業の日
"Oh, you only have one earring. You might drop the other one."
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wrap up for freezing temperature 極寒対策にマキマキ ターバン
It has been very very cold in New York area, days of single digit temperature with strong wind. Putting a wig itself is not a comfortable thing, but adding an extra knit cap to bundle me up makes wig tighten up with extra pressure. When I take off the cap also makes wig look messy, too.
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Reconstruction in Progress 乳房再建途中経過
It was exactly a month after my reconstruction surgery that I had an appointment at the reconstruction surgeon's office. I don't have any more arm movements restrictions after a month of not be able to lift them no higher than my shoulders. I am set free!
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Teaching Tuesday 火曜日授業の日
In a 3 hours lecture, I walk around classroom, visiting students here and there. I give students worksheet, sometimes an individual work, or a group work. I catch some troubled students early to set their understanding straight before they get really in trouble at the end.
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Teaching Wednesday 授業水曜日
Teaching two courses -3 hours each- in a day, while I was constantly concerned about my breasts is stressful. I was changing back and forth between Power Point by pulling down a slide screen and let it roll up for a use of blackboard was a pain in the butt breasts.
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