Why is breast cancer the shopping disease anyway? Every October I’m more baffled by the sheer amount of stuff being marketed and sold in the name of breast cancer awareness. If you can eat it, drink it, play with it, wear it, hammer with it, bake with it, travel in it or even put your …
Cancer
One day is set aside each Breast Cancer Awareness Month to focus on MBC. Yep. One day, seriously? Many troubling shortcomings regarding the pinking of October have been exposed, but perhaps the most glaring failure of all has been the consistent disregard, yes even shunning, of the metastatic breast cancer community. It’s ironic, frustrating and …
I am pleased and excited to offer not one, but two guest posts this week during Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer Week. The first is from previvor Helen Smith. Helen faced her astoundingly painful family history of cancer head on and made tough life-altering decisions to try to keep cancer at bay. Thank you, Helen, …
Someone asked me recently what one word I would choose to describe my cancer experience. The word I chose then and would choose today as well is transforming. That’s what cancer does. It transforms.
By now, you all know how I feel about the power of sharing our personal stories. Sharing almost always decreases feelings of loneliness, anxiety and fear. Sharing almost always increases healing along with a feeling of empowerment. Knowing you are not alone sometimes means everything. It’s why I share my story. It’s why from time …