Blogging for a really, REALLY good cause

Thank you so much everyone who commented on my “House Cleaning” post. Your kind words, thoughts, prayers, wishes, it all means SO MUCH to me! And you know, if you can’t talk to the Internet about your breasts, who can you talk to?

I promised updates, and I don’t have much, but I did talk to the nurse at my Doctor’s office today, the nurse whose job it is to look at mammograms and call patients. Turns out she called twice on Friday, only I can’t even remember where I WAS on Friday, and I never, ever remember to check the voice mail. Anyway, the deal is this: what is showing up on the mammogram looks like a nodule, a cyst, or a calcium deposit. IT IS NOT SOMETHING MALIGNANT THAT I NEED TO BE SUPER-CONCERNED ABOUT. The nurse assured me that they would have tried a lot harder to get a hold of me in person if it was something more serious.

So. While I still remain only cautiously optimistic, I am going to take the nurse at her word and assume that I do not have any kind of tumor. I have the ultrasound tomorrow morning, and should know the results by Friday at the latest. This is the first real medical scare I have ever had, well, besides the whole “your blood pressure is so high that we are delivering your baby three weeks early starting tomorrow” thing. It’s hard to know what frame of mind to be in. It would be very, very easy for me to go to a dark, scary place in my mind and stay there. Doom and gloom is a much more familiar state of mind than I would like.

But for now, I am carrying on assuming that whatever “it” is on the mammogram, it is treatable and I will be fine. Please continue to send your positive, “healthy boob” vibes my way though, I really do appreciate those!

One last thing-in one of those weird coincidences that seem to spring up around BlogLand every once in a while, I decided to run through my Bloglines feeds today just to see what was new, and first on my list is Amalah. She dyed her hair pink for the SXSW festival, and she’s keeping it that way because, in her words,

“I am keeping it pink until this team is fully funded for the D.C. Avon Walk for Breast Cancer on May 5th and 6th. Gulp.”

BREAST CANCER. And who is on the team she linked? Dirka, a/k/a Deidra,, one of my regular readers! Well, let me tell you, I saw the SIGNS, okay, KARMA? I get it. I will be donating the proceeds from my next three sponsored posts to Deidra’s Avon Walk for Breast Cancer team. So, over the next two days, I’ll be taking the maximum three sponsor opportunities a day, to maximize my chances that at least three of the six posts will be approved. I would like to encourage all of you to contribute any amount you can to Deidra’s team. Do it for everyone you know who has breasts.