I had not yet turned 40 when I read the startling statistic that for every 2000 women who submit to ten years of annual mammograms, one will have her life prolonged and ten will be over-diagnosed and treated unnecessarily. But two years later, when my nurse practitioner urged me in for a baseline, I acquiesced. A call-back led to an…
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I know the truth; I know it in my body
When I was a girl, I had a tree. I did not own the tree, but it was mine. It had broad, heart-shaped leaves, and stood in a field at the top of a hill. I was a wild thing. All summer long, I scrambled through green and golden fields. I ran barefoot over the hot tar of the road…