#@!!% Seriously?!

While I was in Florida I got a call from one of the clinical trial coordinators at OSU. She was following up on some details about a clinical trial in which I agreed to participate -- the taking of a drug called Metformin on a daily basis for five years. The conversation was going just fine until she said uttered the impossible "... and you'll have to schedule a bilateral mammogram in the next couple of weeks." It took my brain a minute to compute what she was saying. My audible response when the thought registered? "Oh, hell, there's no way I'm doing that!" Having my surgically sensitive and recently radiated breast pancaked in a mammogram machine is what's called a deal breaker.

I really want to pay-it-forward, to do something that advances cancer research and ultimately helps other women battling the CBitch. Lucky for me, I can start the clinical trial as late as mid February, which means the mammogram would get pushed to early February.

Hhmm, time will tell!

Collage o' the Day

The view from 30,000 or so feet.
It was so awesome to see the
Appalachian Mountains from this distance.