Explore personal stories, milestones, and reflections from diagnosis to survivorship in one woman’s unforgettable breast cancer journey.
The Hot Messy Middle of a Post-Cancer Healing Journey I survived cancer. I stared it in the face and didn’t blink. I got the BRCA2 badge, didn’t ring the bell–until finally, I did. I got new boobs and lost a few organs. And still, here I am, having a temper tantrum. Where’s the gratitude? Why… Continue reading Post-Cancer Healing Journey: I Survived, So Why Am I Still A Mess?
Currently, we can’t laugh about politics. The squirrels wouldn’t find this endorsement a laughing matter. Okay, maybe we’ll let this one slide. The dog is pretty darn cute. But suffering? That’s even more off-limits to joke about than politics. It’s not funny or cute. We don’t advertise our “complaints” on yard signs—I vote for suffering—and… Continue reading Humoring Cancer – The Healing Power of Laughter
A Three-Year Reprieve From Cancer & I’m Still Standing It’s my third cancer anniversary, or if we’re going with the BC/AD time stamp (before cancer/after diagnosis), mark your calendars. It’s 3 AD. As they say, hindsight’s 20/20, and in my case, hindsight’s 2020. (That’s the year I got diagnosed). And I just had my last… Continue reading Hindsight’s 2020!
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