biopsy Archives - The Rumpus

The first time I had my breasts removed was hard. The second time, less so.

CAN-CER-VIVE

I’ve only had breast cancer once and already I know too much.

"In a nutshell," he said, "they're going to excise a dime-sized piece of your tongue and replace it with muscle and tendons from your left wrist."

A list of books that offer various ways to understand what breast cancer means in our lives, individually and collectively.

Socrates: All men are mortal. The Storming Bohemian: I’m a man. Socrates: Right, so… The Storming Bohemian: Uh oh.

There was nothing open about my heart; my chest tightened, threatening to implode.

I left my family’s home in the US afterward because I didn’t know how to stay in the same place where everything had changed.