Five years post diagnosis, what does it mean? I have passed the long-awaited for, highly anticipated five-year mark. It feels a little bit like when I completed primary cancer treatment. It sort of feels like, now what? I’ve been struggling a little bit as to what I should write about this particular juncture. I guess …
Survivorship
I am fascinated by the topic of body image and self-image and shared thoughts on both here. Cancer or no cancer, it’s a topic many women, and men as well, struggle with. Let’s face it, breast cancer does a number on a woman’s body. In this post, I’m sharing two simple exercises to bolster your …
You are enough, right now, this minute, just as you are. Say it. Believe it. Because it’s true.
Another birthday has come and gone for me. I’ve now begun the next decade of my life. I won’t tell you which decade, but if you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you probably know or could figure it out if you wanted to and I’m pretty sure no one cares that much to …
Recently I had my six-month oncology checkup. In some ways, these appointments have become routine-like. In other ways, the very fact that I have oncology appointments at all still seems quite remarkable. Requiring an oncologist is not something one ever expects. Still, after four, almost five years, I am not as nervous about oncology appointments …