By now, you all know how I feel about the power of sharing our personal stories. Sharing almost always decreases feelings of loneliness, anxiety and fear. Sharing almost always increases healing along with a feeling of empowerment. Knowing you are not alone sometimes means everything. It’s why I share my story. It’s why from time …
Ever since Angelina Jolie went public with her big announcement about her recent prophylactic bilateral mastectomy and reconstruction, I’ve been wondering… Why is there this tendency for so many people to judge the decisions, especially medical ones that women make about their own bodies?
Losing your hair due to chemo, or due to any reason for that matter, is hard – really hard. Talk about an understatement, right? Hair loss is a topic that seems to generate more questions, comments and emails than almost any other topic I write about. Losing your hair IS a big deal. And by …
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.
Being an advocate for those living with metastatic breast cancer is a passion of mine. How could it not be? I will not forget. I will not forget all that my mother and my family experienced. I will not forget others taken by this disease. I will not forget those who today live under the …