Stephanie Butland

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Tag: Tamoxifen

A letter of complaint

To whom it may concern:
Don’t get me wrong, if I had to get a cancer, I know I got the right one (breasts are very popular, not least amongst the research community) at the right time (had either of my grandmothers developed a cancer when they were 37, they wouldn’t have lived to tell the [...]

You only have to ask

Last week, I went for my annual eye check. I had all of the tests – the air puffed in, the dye, the selection of lights, the ‘which is better – A or B’, the ‘do the letters look clearer on the red or the green background’.
By virtue of being short-sighted and getting older (and [...]

Still on pause

So. As the Tamoxifen continues, so does the joy that is the medical-menopause-punctuated-by-occasional periods. I can’t tell you how boring it is. But I’ll try.
Boring one: the periods aren’t regular enough to be predictable, preferring to crop up occasionally like a bad ex-boyfriend on Facebook.
Boring two: my body wants to turn into an old woman’s, [...]