Update: This billboard was taken down shortly after this post was widely shared as criticism mounted. Our collective voices matter! Still, the question remains. Why was it so poorly thought out and put up in the first place? Messaging matters. Recently on a pleasant Saturday outing, Dear Hubby and I were driving along and talking …
Cancer launguage
Ever since the firestorm started over the “Double-Kellering” (a term I’m borrowing from my friend ChemoBabe) of Lisa Bonchek Adams over a week ago now, I’ve been thinking about some of the additional various issues and angles there are to this story. Perhaps this is a far bigger story than two journalists bashing one woman …
I was first drawn to the blog of Lisa Adams about three years ago shortly after I began blogging myself. I was immediately drawn to her style of writing and to the topics she chose. Lisa and I both write about breast cancer. Lisa and I both write about grief and loss. Lisa and I have …
So, how do you feel about the expression, cancer is a gift? As far as I’m concerned, cancer was not, is not, and never will be a gift. No surprise, right? My mind has not been changed since I wrote, Cancer Is Not a Gift. If anything, I believe even more strongly that…
There are many reasons why breast reconstruction is NOT a boob job. This particular post is an attempt to cover just one of these reasons. Breast reconstruction is not a boob job because quite literally – breast reconstruction is not a boob job.