Day 318

Andrea Lingle
2 min readAug 31, 2023

Since

Photo by Iain Kennedy on Unsplash

It’s been 318 days since my last surgery, the fourth of the 539 days of active treatment.

My first was supposed to be my last.

Seated in the first of a parade of windowless exam rooms, I talked through the options with my breast surgeon. Because I was diagnosed in 2021, patients and physicians were still masking because of the Covid-19 pandemic, so, fun fact, I would not reliably recognized…

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Andrea Lingle

Writer, lay-theologian, newbie-philosopher. Author of Credulous and Into a Reluctant Sunrise. www.andrealingle.com