Four things not to say to someone who’s grieving. Articles float around from time to time about things to say or not say to someone who’s been diagnosed with cancer, so I wasn’t going to bother and write one. Instead, I decided I’d write one about what not to say to someone who is grieving …
Cancer diagnosis
From time to time, I write about our three pets; the golden, the English springer spaniel and a certain little black cat. Elsie, Sophie and Ninja are very special members of our family and they don’t mind at all when I share about them here on the blog or on Instagram, which by the way, is …
Five years post diagnosis, what does it mean? I have passed the long-awaited for, highly anticipated five-year mark. It feels a little bit like when I completed primary cancer treatment. It sort of feels like, now what? I’ve been struggling a little bit as to what I should write about this particular juncture. I guess …
It’s astounding to me still how hearing those three little words, you have cancer, or in my case four words, you have “a” cancer, changes things. Once you hear them, you can’t go back. Your old life, your pre-cancer life, is over. Cancer is one of life’s great divides, at least it has been for …
7 tips to make asking for help easier after a cancer diagnosis. Do you ever wonder why it’s so darn hard to ask for help? I’m not just talking about in Cancer Land. Many of us never like to ask for help. We prefer to think we can tackle it all and not just tackle …