Do you sometimes feel defeminized by cancer? Talk about a loaded question, right? It’s an interesting one, and it’s one I have been thinking about for a long time. Cancer changes things. It just does. The other day I was making a list of areas of my life that have not been impacted by cancer, …
Survivorship
As we head into the Thanksgiving holiday here in the US, there are probably lots of articles and stories about gratitude coming your way. Gratitude is pretty much the word of the month every November, right? And of course, we often hear people who’ve been diagnosed with cancer say they are more grateful in general …
As many of us know all too well, a cancer diagnosis affects a person’s life in just about every conceivable area, including your sex life. Any kind of cancer does this, of course, but breast cancer adds another whole dimension to this conversation for obvious reasons. After all, sex and breasts, is it even possible …
Let’s stop telling cancer patients how to feel and what to do! I don’t know about you, but sometimes it seems to me like there are way too many people telling cancer patients how to feel, how to act, how to do cancer and yes, how to do survivorship, too. Do you remember when you …
After a cancer diagnosis, 10 tips for summer self-care. For many of us, summer is still in full swing — or at least summer temps are. There are tons of things going on and plenty to keep us busy. There is a tendency to pack a whole lot, often too much, into summer months. And …