Breast Cancer Awareness Month might be over (whew!), but it never ends for some of us. For those who’ve been diagnosed, every month is BCAM. At least this is the case for me. Once you’ve heard the words, you have cancer, you can’t unhear them. If only turning off cancer thoughts were as easy as …
Breast cancer
Metastatic breast cancer, let’s talk about it. Yes, let’s. Metastatic breast cancer (MBC) is a topic that some in Breast Cancer Land avoid. And don’t get me started on the lack of attention (and research $$$) MBC has received over the years. Why this avoidance persists, I will never understand. Some (maybe many?) oncologists don’t …
Here we are. Another October. Another Breast Cancer Awareness Month. (This is BCAM # 36, if I’m counting right.) One week down. Another 21 days or so of who knows what coming down the pink pipeline. Does BCAM feel different this year? I mean, there’s the pandemic, deep political divides (even within families), the election, …
I will likely have lots more to say about my recent explant and DIEP flap breast reconstruction surgery. Yes, of course, I will. But for now, I’ll share updates and a few random thoughts about my experience having a major surgery during a pandemic. You might want to read, When Your Implant Ruptures and/or When …
You’ve likely heard it said, as have I, that it’s not enough to proclaim to be anti-racist, you have to DO stuff that supports such a proclamation. Otherwise, it’s rather meaningless to make any proclamation at all. You know, that whole actions speak louder than words thing. You have to speak up. You have to …