PSA time! Did you know your skin is your body’s largest organ? May is Melanoma and Skin Cancer Awareness Month. If you think skin cancer isn’t a big deal, think again. Speaking from experience here. Yep. Another cancer. Another specialist. Another scar. NOTE: Since this post was published, I’ve been diagnosed with my second skin …
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Last week I had my checkup with my oncologist. Sometimes I’m not even sure why I keep having these appointments because as I’ve mentioned before, we pretty much have the same discussions now at each one. This is a good thing. A really good thing. I am not complaining. I don’t want to have a …
Cancer is all about worry. Cancer causes a domino effect of worry. One worry leads to another. When you first find your lump or whatever clue finally gives your sneaky cancer away, you worry about what might or might not be. You worry about if you should tell anyone, make that doctor appointment, or schedule that …
As I mentioned in my previous post, I have passed the five-year mark of being on an aromatase inhibitor. So now what? I have decided I am going to stay on Aromasin. I do not know how long I will stay on it, but I am going to hang in there for a while longer. …
Do you sometimes feel defeminized by cancer? Talk about a loaded question, right? It’s an interesting one, and it’s one I have been thinking about for a long time. Cancer changes things. It just does. The other day I was making a list of areas of my life that have not been impacted by cancer, …