Have you ever wondered what great lesson(s) you’re supposed to have learned from cancer? I have. After all, this is another cancer expectation that’s out there and continuously perpetuated. We’re supposed to learn from, and therefore, potentially be grateful for the life “detour” that is cancer, are we not? (Umm. No!) We are supposed to …
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Four things not to say to someone who’s grieving. Articles float around from time to time about things to say or not say to someone who’s been diagnosed with cancer, so I wasn’t going to bother and write one. Instead, I decided I’d write one about what not to say to someone who is grieving …
Sometimes I wonder why more people are not up in arms about how many women and men die from metastatic breast cancer each year, each day. Is pink ribbon culture’s fabricated illusion that buying pink stuff will solve all our breast cancer woes to blame? Is the media to blame for mostly portraying feel-good type …
In case you didn’t know or remember, the first Sunday in June is officially designated as National Cancer Survivors Day®, so I’m sharing some thoughts about it again this year. For various reasons, I’m just not that into it and I’ll try to explain why in this post. On their official website it says the …
I get requests all the time to share one thing or the other. Generally, I opt out for various reasons. But when I was recently asked by the good people at FORCE (Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered), to share about a research survey opportunity, of course I said yes; I’ll help spread the word. …