![]() ![]() It is a source of comfort and encouragement for those living with the specter of breast cancer. She writes, “ The Cancer Journals is many things. Notably, The Cancer Journals is one of the most important illness narratives written. was three, and my other child was six.Īudre Lorde published The Cancer Journals-a collection of journal entries, reflections on what it means to be a woman with one breast, and a cultural critique of breast cancer and its industry-in 1980, after her first diagnosis of breast cancer. At the time, my entries were fleeting reflections, notes from books, and snippets of lists and fears. ![]() ![]() I wrapped her back up & put her back in bed. and I showered together this morning in the dark. Space and distance distorted in its reflection. On April 16, 2012, a month before my radical right breast mastectomy and TRAM flap reconstruction, I wrote in my new journal: Spent a long time looking at life reflected in a shiny car bumper. ![]()
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