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Ten days ago I started a Facebook countdown and the day is now staring me in the face. It is nearly 6 am and I’ve been awake for two hours with a racing mind wondering if I’m really ready to turn loose my personal experience with DCIS, share my thought with ‘the world’ and make this a two way conversation instead of a project residing on my laptop. I’ve got a personal webinar scheduled for 8:30 am this morning with Brian Basillico, b2b marketing, to get my new twitter account, @DCISmystory, Facebook page, DCISmystory, and website all connected, install Google analytics and help me promote this project via social media. I’ll write some letters to the editors and treat my personal experience repository, now a web site, like many of the projects or events I’ve promoted the past twenty years. Launching a personal marketing strategy that is indeed, very personal, feels different. My stomach is turning (or is that hunger pangs?), my heart racing (probably the caffeine hangover from celebrating yesterday’s ‘National Coffee Day’), and my mind churning on all cylinders.
If you’ve read my blog entry, “Timeline,” this thought will resonate better. My personal timeline artifact for 2011 is this link DCISmystory.com. I hope and pray the words I’ve written for others is just the start of a movement for us all to help one another through the collective sharing of knowledge.
As Buzz Lightyear would say, “To infinity and beyond.”
Had my first post diagnosis check up this moinnrg (6 month) and all is clear-I’m officially cancer free and move to survivor status. Of course, I had to answer, numerous times, as to why i had refused radiation and tamoxifen. Each time I got that you did WHAT? response followed by the comment, well you know not doing standard of care increases your chance of a recurrence? Good grief, yes, I know that and I’m willing to bet I know much more about my case and standard of care than any of them. So, scare tactics still continuing, even as they’re telling me I’m cancer free and my breast tissue and lymph nodes were perfect . I’m sure I’ll have another round of scare tactics in 2 weeks when I followup with the breast surgeon. Of course, my naturopath Dr and clinical nutritionist were happy. I just keep wondering why all I hear about is recurrence and nothing about the 80% that never have another problem. Oh yeah, because then they can’t scare you into doing things that lines their pockets with cash.