I don’t mind admitting I’ve been feeling sad, angry and more than a bit cheated this week. It’s the week that marked the fourth anniversary of my mom’s passing. It’s been a week full of memories from the past. Some of them good. Some of them horrendous. It was also a week for which I had …
Loss
Does sending a card of sympathy to someone who’s grieving really matter? There was a time when I hesitated to send a sympathy card when I heard someone’s loved one or friend had died. Or maybe I should say it’s not so much that I hesitated to send one, it was more that I wondered …
Two Februarys stand out in my mind as being “cancer Februarys”, and I cannot forget either one. This particular post is a collection of random memories from one of them — my mother’s last February. They are personal memories I hesitated to share, but as my friend Jackie from Dispatch From Second Base once told …
When my daughter and soon to be son-in-law were helping me set up my blog, I asked my daughter, “Do you think my blog’s name — Nancy’s Point, A blog about breast cancer and loss — is too depressing?” “Well, a little bit,” she answered. At the time, I asked myself well, how do you …
I’ve been around now for a fair number of Februarys (never mind exactly how many), but two seem to stand out in my mind and it’s no surprise they are “cancer Februarys.” Of course cancer stomps around all year doing its damage, but some months seem to have a more permanent imprint etched into them, …