How much damage has been done “trying to make ugly pretty” during Breast Cancer Awareness Month over the past 30+ years? Here we are heading into yet another Breast Cancer Awareness Month. It sure seems to roll around fast, right? Advocacy work of many through the years has brought about changes to BCAM, or I’d …
Metastatic breast cancer
Will you feel better after stopping your aromatase inhibitor medication and if so, when? I mean, is that a loaded question or what? Please remember this blog is never a place to get medical advice. That’s what your care team is for. It is a place to learn, discuss and share experiences and information. You …
Reentry, back to normal, new normal. Where have we heard this sort of terminology before? All this “back to normal, new normal” talk is yet another parallel many of us have noted between the pandemic and cancer worlds. There have been a lot of parallels. I mean, a lot! This does not mean the experiences …
Update: Sadly, Kristie Konsoer died from metastatic breast cancer on December 5, 2021. She was 51. Read her obit, which she wrote herself, here. It’s my pleasure to share the next #MetsMonday Featured Post by Kristie Konsoer. Kristie was diagnosed with de novo metastatic breast cancer in 2012. She wrote a wonderful blog titled, Finding …
That pretty much sums up where I’m still at 11 years out. Yep. 11 years out. That’s me. Every spring about this time, I find myself in a reflective sort of mood about this entire cancer shit show, which is what it is. A journey it is not.