Recently, when looking at family photos from Christmases prior to my diagnosis, I found myself searching for some kind of clue in those photos that said, you have, or will soon have, cancer. Of course, there were none. I looked the same, sitting there posed in front of the tree smiling away, totally unaware about …
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Did you know October 13th is Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day? Yes, metastatic breast cancer gets its own awareness day designation. It should be getting a whole lot more, but I guess one day is better than no day at all. Friend and fellow blogger, Katherine O’Brien from I Hate Breast Cancer, recently proposed her …
This past February on my birthday I posted about the Uninvited Guest that showed up at my birthday party a few years back. You know the guest; the one who is never welcome, never knows when to leave and can’t seem to stay in its proper place for very long. Recently that uninvited guest made …
OK, I admit it, the title of this post sounds a bit melodramatic, but then isn’t that what soap operas are were all about, melodrama? And now they’re slowly dying off, one by one, almost reminiscent of the characters in the shows that seemed to do the same thing, die off. Miraculously, some of the …
I’m probably a little late with this post. September 11th has come and gone once again. Still, we need to keep remembering… Did you watch the media coverage? Were you drawn in? Or did you avoid it altogether? My hubby said, “Why do you want to watch this stuff? I’m not sure I want to. …