What is your relationship with hope? When you’ve finished reading some of my thoughts, I’d love to know what yours are. Hope is a fine word, a fine thing to be sure; but hope is not enough — especially when talking about metastatic cancer. Hope is a tricky thing. It’s elusive, it’s vague, it means …
Metastatic breast cancer
I’m pleased to share this special #MetsMonday featured post by Linda Catanzaro Boberg and her daughter Meg Boberg. They share how their lives have been impacted by preparatory and anticipatory grief and how they cope with the ongoing challenges this kind of grief brings. Dealing with preparatory and anticipatory grief is hard. Writing and reading …
Every single #MetsMonday featured post thus far has been terrific. Each one so important in message and so wonderfully written. If you’ve yet to do so, I hope you’ll take time to read them all. Such an honor to feature the voices of all the contributors here on the blog. I’m expanding #MetsMonday featured posts …
18 things real breast cancer patients wish you knew. Note: Sadly, five of the contributors for this piece have since died from MBC. THAT is what I want people to know. Breast cancer is NOT the good cancer, and is in fact, too often still deadly. For clarity: In this particular post, when I’m referring …
It’s with pleasure I share the next #MetsMonday Featured Post, “Dear Breast Cancer ‘Survivor’”, by Margaret Young. There has been continuing discussion of late in the breast cancer blogosphere and on social media about the divisions between early stagers and those with stage 4 disease. Divisions are unavoidable, I suppose. Nonetheless, this particular one I’ve …