You gotta stop blaming yourself for getting cancer. Seriously, if you’re doing that, or ever have, stop! If you’ve been diagnosed with any serious illness, you probably have asked, why me? You might’ve wondered if something you did or did not do was partly to blame for your predicament. The blame game is pointless, unhelpful …
Hereditary cancer
I am excited to share a guest post for National Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer (HBOC) Week from my friend and fellow advocate, Amy Byer Shainman. Some of you are familiar with Amy’s tremendous advocacy work and some of you are just learning about it today. Today is National Previvor Day, so it the perfect …
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 …
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 …