It's probably nothing, or, How I learned to stop worrying and love my implants
By: Micki Myers
Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 139
ISBN-13: 9781476712741; 9781476712765; 9781476712758
Subjects: Patients; Cancer in women; Poetry; Cancer
Description: WHAT TO DO WHEN CANCER STRIKES? As a vibrant woman in her late thirties, a mother of two, poet, artist, and teacher, Micki Myers decided to confront her diagnosis head on with the sharpest tools in her arsenal: namely, her sense of humor and unbridled poetic license.
Table of contents: title: Oh fuck I have cancer!; title: Dream a little dream of me; title: No way! Way.; title: Don't waffle about: get a mammogram!; title: It's probably nothing...; title: Living wage; title: What to expect when you're expecting to hear you have cancer; title: Bedside manners; title: Say wha?; title: Mind over matter; title: You want the good news or the bad news?; title: Tie a pink ribbon around the old oak tree; title: 617delT walks into a bar; title: Stereotactic core biopsy black and blues; title: Muzak; title: Double whammy; title: Agent provocateur; title: Body piercing; title: Sentinel node biopsy lament; title: Sadenfreude; title: Freefalling; title: You can never be too rich or too thin?; title: I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts; title: B31-3 rosette royal with a little SR512 fruit punch; title: You can't take it with you; title: What a racket; title: Penny drops; title: Penicillin; title: Pathological; title: Acronymious; title: On the hospital menu: takeout; title: You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear; title: Wussy; title: Air -reconditioning; title: "It costs a lot of money to look this cheap"; title: Spit or swallos?; title: Disabled driver; title: Biohazard; title: Wigging out; title: That old red devil called love; title: Seeing red; title: Honeymoon; title: Short back and sides; title: Blessed are the children; title: Opportunity knocks!; title: Escapism; title: Teaching on percocets; title: Don't call us; title: we'll call you!; title: Neupogen; title: THC, TLC, TCB; title: Funnies; title: Sorry to be so blunt; title: 20-gauge; title: Day spa; title: Hair today, gone tomorrow haiku; title: Yew tree, how scary thou art; title: Tragicomic; title: Falsies; title: No such thing as a free lunch; title: Tangled up on you; title: I'd raise eyebrows, if anyone had them; title: Getting lippy; title: Baa baa black sheep; title: Make mine a double; title: Magic swizzle; title: Mental floss; title: Wastoid; title: Hospital-grade benadryl; title: Black humor; title: Death and taxol; title: Still here; title: Recovery, a la Benjamin Button; title: Blondes have more touching up to do; title: (Fill in the blank); title: Fill'er up; title: Pros and cons; title: Real fake boobs; title: Rack; title: Go figure; title: [Two smiley faces]; title: Dolly Parton poem; title: Cleavage; title: Slight chill; title: That's hysterical; title: Mixed metaphor; title: TUBE (totally unnecessary breast exam); title: Estrogen elegy; title: Stuck like glue; title: Chica chica boom chic; title: Victoria's Secret; title: Pull yourself up by your brastraps; title: Punctuation; title: Beating around the bush; title: Killing time; title: You lose some, you wind some; title: C-word; title: Dream lover; title: Coda.