Walkabout Encinitas
Touch your balls & boobs often
Yes, men can absolutely get breast cancer. I don't talk about it much. It's a thing of the past & I don't want people's sympathetic looks to their feet as the words "sorry" often come out. Once in a while I get an "attaboy" which feels good! Plus, as a man, I have to acknowledge that it's emasculating to say I had breast cancer. It feels wus like. But, it's cool people. I'm still alive. I'm lucky. The details are mostly fuzzy mainly because it was ages ago, but also because I had just moved back to Boulder, Colorado in March of 2000 for my 4th tech startup and was working 20+ hours a day so my focus was on making the company work and not letting my new team down. Plus I had chemo brain ~ a common foggy condition shared by those going through chemotherapy. The diagnosis of "you have breast cancer" was puzzling at first.What in the world are you talking about? Two lumps removed from the left side later fo...
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