Family Ties: Navigating cancers together

 (R.E.M) And everybody hurts sometimes So hold on, hold on  I've always loved this song and I think it solidifies me in the Gen X category when I say that I remember watching Beverly Hills 90210, in the episode (there may have been more than one!) where Dylan and Brenda break up. and this song is playing.  Today, this song was running through my mind, while in an ultra-modern, clean and well-equipped procedure room of the Renfrew Victoria Hospital.  I was getting a Molli-seed (http://mollisurgical.com/localization-toolkit-patients/) injected into my boob for my surgeon to find it during the surgery.  It's not some kind of medical hide and seek, it's actually a very small magnet, a bit smaller than a grain of rice, sitting right close to the tumour that can be detected with a special wand during the surgery.  It's a medical miracle from a Canadian company and I'm happy it's been invented (the alternative was literally, a wire, sticking out of my boob, poking int

 (Title post and song credit: Jelly Roll) Who even blogs anymore? Why am I blogging? What is this all about? While I don't know the answer to the first question, I can easily answer the next two: I'm blogging for me, about my experience with navigating breast cancer at the same time as I support my daughter navigating thyroid cancer (yep, both diagnosed within months of each other). I'm blogging because I'm a much better writer than speaker, when I can write, edit, re-write and over -think things behind the scenes. Which I will do, for sure. I'm blogging partly for therapy and partly to share information - more on both of those to come.  I'm also wrapping up work this week, for the next few months, and it feels like I'll need something to do (besides heal).  So, that's the answer to the first 2 questions and now a bit about my cancer (I don't think I need to introduce myself, since I'm not planning to share this broadly) but I was diagnosed in Au