You got questions
Q: What the hell?
A: yep.
Q: You have cancer?
A: that's the premise here. All the test results seem to suggest this is the case.
Q: Who are you?
A: if you don't know me, why are you reading this? But I'm Kris. I'm the one with the cancer. Anna is my friend who is helping me distribute information once I get to a point where I don't want to answer questions myself.
Q: What kind of cancer do you have?
A: I have ductal carcinoma in situ. The tumor is small and we don't think it's metastasized. The biomarkers show that it is HR+ and HER2/ERBB2-. This is a great outcome: the survival rates are great and treatment options are plentiful, particularly when it's found this early.
Edit: Apparently I ALSO have invasive lobular carcinoma. I have a cancer for each boob. Both seem to have been found very early, which is a testament to my careola team. FWIW, the survival rates for ILC are pretty darn good at where we think we found that too.
Q: What's your treatment?
A: When I know that, we'll put what I am comfortable sharing publicly here on the blog in a post.
Q: Why a blog?
A: Some close friends have been through hell and back health-wise. I asked their family about how to distribute information because I tell ya, it's kind of exhausting to be the one who is experiencing the illness, the one who has to tell everyone, the one who has to then comfort the freakout from everyone who just hears the big C word and panics, and then has to deal with all the other shit that comes with being sick. Their suggestion was to choose one person who everyone spoke to as the point person.
I chose Anna, who is helping out here, but the reality is (and I am aware of what a luxury this is) that we have pockets of friends all over. It would quickly be daunting for Anna to try to answer ALL the questions from everyone, so we agreed to just do this. I'll update as I can, and when I can't, I'll let Anna know what she can put up here for public consumption. Giant thank you to Laura and Sarah for the insights here.
Q: Isn't the tone kind of crass?
A: do you even know me? I expect almost everything on here to be told with humor. Also a reason I chose Anna. She makes me laugh like almost no one else.
Q: I noticed that the blog isn't very well put together.
A: Well isn't that great for you? Also that's not a question. So there. Look. I have cancer. I have better shit to do than spend a lot of time making the blog look good.
Q: Speaking of looking good, that Tits Up art is incredible. Where can I learn more about the fabulous artist?
A: Kelly Maryanski is an incredible artist. Find her at http://www.kelly-maryanski.com/