Attitude

Post-cancer diagnosis, do you ever feel like you’re living in Pink Ribbon Fantasy Land? If you’re like me and have been diagnosed with breast cancer, you will never forget the day you heard those words, you have cancer. You will likely never forget how you were then propelled into the maze of cancer treatment and …

What does telling a cancer patient, just stay positive, really mean? Perhaps such a comment is more about the person saying it than the one hearing it. Stick with me here. The topic of maintaining a positive attitude during cancer treatment (and beyond) is one that comes up time and time again in Cancer Land. …

Recently I was reading a post by one of my favorite bloggers, the Cancer Curmudgeon, and I had one of those light-bulb moments. Let me just stress, this was NOT an epiphany. No, I have not had one of those, nor do I expect to. It was more a realization that I need to remember …

Walls we build in Cancer Land help no one and potentially harm many. How many times have you heard it said that no one understands what you’re going through unless they’ve walked in your shoes? We hear this all the time and not just in Cancer Land, of course. But in Cancer Land, I read …

Let’s stop telling cancer patients how to feel and what to do! I don’t know about you, but sometimes it seems to me like there are way too many people telling cancer patients how to feel, how to act, how to do cancer and yes, how to do survivorship, too. Do you remember when you …