Is there beauty in every storm? This past weekend Wisconsin and Minnesota made national headlines because of our severe weather conditions, actually two headlines. The first was about the magnitude of our latest snowstorm, deemed to be in the “top five” since record keeping began in the area. My little city was even mentioned on …
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Elizabeth Edwards — my connection. Do you ever wonder why we connect with famous people who have cancer? I was stopped in my tracks when it was announced further treatment for Elizabeth Edwards was deemed unproductive. It’s interesting how such decisions are put into words as gently as possible. Those words really meant time was …
After a cancer diagnosis, then what? When you first receive a cancer diagnosis, you likely feel overwhelmed by the number of appointments you suddenly need to schedule and show up at, the questions you have with no certain answers, what your treatment course might be like and the general feeling of loss of control over …
Usually I don’t post updates right away following my own appointments or procedures. Generally, I prefer to write retrospectively; I seem to have better insights further out from such things. And photos, forget about it. However, for some reason, I decided to change things up today and let everyone know how my surgery went last week, …
December has arrived bringing more frigid temperatures, all of the holiday decorations and the making of to-do lists that seem to grow longer each day instead of shorter. This December is unlike any previous one for obvious reasons; one being it is now six months since my bilateral mastectomy last June 2. Now six months …