November is a month of transition in Wisconsin. Mother Nature is deciding if she is ready to let go of fall and welcome in winter. One day the thermometer reads sixty-five degrees, and the next day, it’s thirty degrees colder. (or more!) The trees are bare. The crops are harvested. The horizon looks gray many …
Grief
My mother died from metastatic breast cancer in 2008. In some ways, I miss her even more since my cancer diagnosis because I know what an amazing support person she would have been. She felt a lot of guilt for potentially carrying the BRCA 2 gene mutation on to her children. Mothers like to fix …
I lost my mother to breast cancer on March 6, 2008. I don’t cry very often anymore, but I still miss her every day. Since my own breast cancer diagnosis, the void in my life feels even greater. I know it will be there forever. Recently I traveled to my dad’s house for a visit …