In this post, I want to share the goals I have for my memoir, Cancer Was Not a Gift & It Didn’t Make Me a Better Person: A memoir about cancer as I know it. I don’t have a ton of goals, but I have some. One goal I do not have is to be …
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I have a bunch of goals for my memoir. One of my primary goals is to further expose metastatic breast cancer for what it is – horrible, deadly, under-discussed and massively underfunded. I share candidly about my family’s experience with metastatic breast cancer in my memoir, Cancer Was Not a Gift & It Didn’t Make …
November is National Family Caregivers Month. This post offers eight tips for caregivers because their needs matter too. Have you ever been a caregiver? Have you ever been on the receiving end of caregiving? I have experienced both sides of this particular “coin” and in some ways, being a caregiver is a lot harder. Along …
I’ve observed less pink shenanigans this October thus far, or maybe it’s just that I’m becoming better at tuning it out. Or maybe I’m just not shocked by pink outlandishness anymore. That’s probably it. I do know the whole idea of shopping being so tied up with breast cancer in the first place is just …
October 13th each year is designated as National Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day. One day. One day out of 31. Breast Cancer Awareness Month dedicates one measly day to the only kind of breast cancer that kills, the metastatic kind. This is just one more thing Breast Cancer Awareness Month has turned inside out.