Once you’ve been diagnosed with cancer and have been flung into the rigors of treatment, it can sometimes feel as if you’re doing cancer all wrong. There are unspoken societal messages out there about how a person is supposed to do cancer. And with breast cancer, there are even more expectations, for some reason I’ve …
Survivorship
When I started blogging, I knew from the get-go I wanted to write about breast cancer and loss. When my mother died from metastatic breast cancer, my life changed forever. Less than two years later when I was diagnosed with breast cancer myself, obviously things changed pretty darn dramatically again.
It’s been over a decade since I heard those words, you have cancer. Actually, the words I heard were, you have ‘a’ cancer. I’ve always wondered about that little ‘a’ inserted into the conversation I had on the phone with ‘a’ doctor that spring day. Yes, ‘a’ doctor delivered the news, not ‘my’ doctor; another …
It’s time to share about part two of the new eGuide series, Breast Cancer Survivor Secrets, recently put together by my friend, Gai Comans. As I mentioned in my post about part one, Gai was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 38 and now dedicates much of her life’s work to reaching out to …
I’ve written about hair many times. Hair posts seem to strike a chord. If you’re a woman, hair is always on your mind. Well, maybe not always; but hair is on your mind at least once or twice a day, probably many more times if you’re honest. Maybe this is true for men, too, but …