Back in 2004 when my mother was first diagnosed with breast cancer, the very first online resource I turned to was Breastcancer.org. I don’t remember how I ended up there or exactly why; I only know that I did. I still have articles I printed off from the site during that tumultuous time.
Getting Past the Fear
A big, big thank you to all who participated in my book giveaway! Also, I appreciate all the support so many of you have shown by sharing about my book, Getting Past the Fear: A Guide to Help You Mentally Prepare for Chemotherapy. Thank you to you as well.
Sometimes I worry a bit about being too self-promotional with a blog post, but then I remind myself, hey, this is my blog after all. So promoting my own book here from time to time is totally okay and almost required, right? So…
It’s been three years since I started chemo. Even now, July represents chemo month to me. Of course July represents many other and mostly summery things as well, but the memory of chemo is permanently branded into my mind’s registry of summer memories. That July three years ago was part of the summer that wasn’t.
Why me? How many times have you asked this question in your life? Have you asked it a lot, just a few times or maybe never? Generally speaking, it seems we ask this question when bad things happen to us. When good things happen, we tend not to think in quite the same way. Perhaps we …