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Hello world. Welcome to the cheeriest blog ever. If you're here, you know the basics. I am Kris. I have breast cancer, or more specifically (or fancily) Ductal carcinoma in situ.  [edit. it turned out I had invasive ductile carcinoma. And then an MRI found a bonus tumor that was invasive lobular carcinoma. In situ means "in place" while invasive is more nefarious, as it sounds...but I was still one of the lucky ones as far as this bs goes.] Friends have suggested that a good way to get info out is to nominate a point person who is in charge of information distribution...and that makes sense but the reality is that we have a lot of weird pockets of people in our lives who don't talk to each other (yeah I probably did just call you weird, and you probably took that as a compliment). So I started this as a no-frills way to get info out. My plan for now is to update this as I'm able. When I'm not able, Stephen will, or I'll have my person do it.  So I'll i...

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