Does National Cancer Survivors Day Sound Too Celebratory? The first Sunday in June is designated as National Cancer Survivors Day®. I’ve never been a fan of this particular designated day. You can read why here and here. In a nutshell, it sounds too celebratory to my liking, and also because it excludes those with metastatic disease. …

Facing my bilateral mastectomy, and I am afraid. Over a decade ago now, I spent Memorial Day weekend preparing for my bilateral mastectomy even though, of course, I had no idea how to do that. Who would? One thing I vividly recall about that weekend was going to the movie, Robin Hood, the one with …

Here we are, seven year later and I still can’t believe I need an oncologist. You might think after seven years, I would have adjusted by now to having an oncologist, but I have not. Not entirely anyway. It still seems strange to have need of such a person in my life. As I’ve written …

Every now and then, I am reminded about the magnitude of my cancer diagnosis. I mean really reminded. Despite the way breast cancer is too often (ad nauseum) portrayed, I understand the seriousness of this potentially deadly disease all too well. I’ve seen the horror of it up close. And sometimes, my cancer diagnosis still …

It’s been nine months since my dad died. Judging by societal expectations, something we shouldn’t do of course, things should be back to normal. I should be back to normal. But I am not. I am still limping along through grief.