Once you’ve heard the dreaded words, you have cancer, you can’t go back. December 2nd marks the one year anniversary of my tissue expander-implant exchange surgery. This means it’s also been exactly eighteen months to the day since my bilateral mastectomy. Which in turn, means it’s been a little more than eighteen months since I …
Coping
Last week I received a letter from my oncologist stating he was ending his practice at my clinic. Just when I am finally becoming really comfortable with my oncologist, just when he is starting to smile a bit more during my appointments, just when I am finally starting to feel a bit more in control …
It’s been one year since I pushed that publish button and posted my first blog post. Time flies, even when you’re fighting cancer! It seems like this might be a good time to reflect a bit on my blogging experience thus far and share a few of the discoveries I have made along the way. …
A lot has changed at the clinic I go to since my cancer gig began a little over a year ago. At that time the cancer area was located on the fifth floor along with general surgery, plastic surgery and urology. Generally whenever I arrived for an appointment, there was a lengthy line and a …
Let’s talk about one of those labels often thrown around post-cancer treatment when you are turned loose and expected to get back out there — also known as figuring out life under the ‘new normal’ umbrella. Or, simply finding your new normal, whatever that means. Following treatment (if you’re “lucky” enough to have a treatment …