Chemotherapy

My first book, Getting Past the Fear:  A Guide to Help You Mentally Prepare for Chemotherapy is now two years old – the print version that is. The original ebook version has now been around for almost four years. Wow, four years! If I were to write this book today, I’d probably change a few …

Cancer is all about worry.  Cancer causes a domino effect of worry. One worry leads to another. When you first find your lump or whatever clue finally gives your sneaky cancer away, you worry about what might or might not be. You worry about if you should tell anyone, make that doctor appointment, or schedule that …

Be bold, be bald, is this campaign helpful? Umm, no. Update:  The Be Bold, Be Bald campaign is being suspended. The founder listened to advocates and patients who were discussing this on social media and came to this decision. Huge news? Maybe not. But it is advocacy in action producing results. I applaud this decision …

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 …

I am excited to offer all of you, my dear readers, a chance to win a FREE copy of my book, Getting Past the Fear:  A Guide to Help You Mentally Prepare for Chemotherapy. For details on how to be part of this giveaway, keep reading. Getting Past the Fear has been in print for one …