Labels belong on soup cans not cancer patients. What am I talking about? Let me explain. When I learned to read waaaay back in first grade during the Dick, Jane and Spot era, my class was neatly divided into three reading groups according to our ability, or that’s what the intention was anyway. Each group …
Metastatic breast cancer
Another Mother’s Day has come and gone. Mother’s Day 2012 marked a significant milestone for me. I’ve now experienced five Mother’s Days without a mother. Five. This feels pretty major. Mother’s Day 2012 also marked another very different kind of milestone. In my neck of the woods, Mother’s Day marks the annual Susan G. Komen Race …
Two years ago this week was when my first domino toppled, leading to a chain of events that is still playing out today. Remembering all the approaching dates, as well as pondering the overwhelming response to my recent mets post has resulted in a few nights of restless sleep of late. I can’t stop remembering …
Does living with metastatic disease have to feel so lonely? Sometimes, I think those of us not living with metastatic breast cancer hesitate to speak out about it for a lot of reasons, primarily perhaps because of fear, but also because we don’t think we have the right to do so. We don’t really know …
Being a parent and receiving a cancer diagnosis at any age is hard. It doesn’t matter how old you are as the parent. It doesn’t matter how old you are as the child. Well, that’s not entirely true, but… When a parent is diagnosed, what do you tell the kids? I’ve been on both sides …