the end of my love affair with artificial sweetener

i realize that most people respond to cancer news with 'why me?' the question that i can't stop asking is 'what did i do that caused this?' across our huge extended family there is no history of cancer.... at all. leaving me to wonder if i have introduced some environmental root cause. while i continue to hear that i haven't done anything in particular to trigger this, i partially expect the answer to come back to my artificial sweetener habits.

while there is apparently no possible correlation, i cannot stand the thought of putting anything like this in my body again. i could down diet coke with the best of them and have tried every possible format of splenda, my sweetener of choice. i have splenda in my home, desk, wallet, and even in my car. during my time in the U.K., we talked often about bottomless diet cokes being one of the things we missed most about the U.S. of A. those days for me are over. thankfully water and ice are also up there on the top of my consumption list... and rising!

the oncologist called from her vacation yesterday to inform me that my biopsy is in the good hands of a hematopathologist at yale, working to nail the diagnosis through some additional testing. unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be the hodgkin's slam dunk reading i was hoping for, but is still in process. i will have final results sometime later this week. stay tuned...