The biopsy, the Good News, the end (of this super long story)
Lorena
Need to catch up? This is the last part, Part Eight. Part One; Part Two; Part Three; Part Four; Part Five; Part Six, and Part Seven. So on Tuesday, February…
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In between moments (part two)
Need to catch up? This is Part Seven. Part One; Part Two; Part Three; Part Four; Part Five; Part Six. I did a lot of this in January. It was…
In between moments (part one)
So, what else was going on while all this was going on? A couple of days before the mammogram, I cleaned out my little library, intending to craft a little…
Ugh; the ultrasound
Well, I didn’t intend to drag my heels on this one, but a combination of a few crafty things I was consumed with, coupled with this being my least favorite…
And then I got the call to come back for an ultrasound
Early in the morning, the day after Christmas, I got a phone call from the mammogram place. They had seen something they’d like to get a better look at, could…
So, how’d the actual mammogram go, then?
This is Part Three of this story. Here’s Part One. Here’s Part Two. There is nothing quite so lonely as going to get your very first mammogram on a cold…
Wait, shouldn’t you have had that first mammogram four years ago?
Yeah, maybe, if you subscribe to most of today’s conventional wisdom (have your first mammogram at 40, ladies!)… even though some studies now are saying that if you don’t have…
That time I had my first mammogram and it totally fucked up my Christmas vacation
First off, I’m fine. I have benign heterogeneously dense breasts, which are also asymmetrical, which basically means that instead of mostly fat in my breasts I have dense tissue, which…
I feel like I’m going to have this cold for the rest of my life
I’m sick of being sick. I’ve been on-again-off-again sick since JANUARY 3rd. That’s TWO WEEKS. Sweet Zombie Jesus. It’s been the same sore throat/post nasal drip/sneezing/non-productive cough/snot factory… in varying…
About
My name is Lorena Haldeman, and I am the owner, maker, creatrix, artist, and hard-working woman behind HaldeCraft. I was bitten by a crafty bug as a child, when my…
New Year’s Resolutions
I think I’ve mentioned before, that I don’t really truck with New Year’s resolutions. Too much pressure to make sweeping changes that never stick, too hung over and/or tired the…
We all scream for ice cream
On Sunday, we had an impromptu gathering for our friend Mariana, her husband, and their two sons. Renato is taking a sabbatical from UF for a year, and the four…