Do you ever feel like you’re the reminder, the reminder of cancer? Do you sometimes wonder if your family and friends see you and then immediately think cancer thoughts? Sometimes I feel this way. One of those people I do not like reminding at all about cancer is my dad. He needs no reminders; he …

Remember that old saying about a picture being worth a thousand words? Of course you do. So in this post I am trying very hard to let the pictures do all the talking, okay, most of it anyway. Some of you, my dear readers, might remember a transplanting project of mine I shared about with …

Have you ever wondered what great lesson(s) you’re supposed to have learned from cancer? I have. After all, this is another cancer expectation that’s out there and continuously perpetuated. We’re supposed to learn from, and therefore, potentially be grateful for the life “detour” that is cancer, are we not? (Umm. No!) We are supposed to …

Four things not to say to someone who’s grieving. Articles float around from time to time about things to say or not say to someone who’s been diagnosed with cancer, so I wasn’t going to bother and write one. Instead, I decided I’d write one about what not to say to someone who is grieving …

Sometimes I wonder why more people are not up in arms about how many women and men die from metastatic breast cancer each year, each day. Is pink ribbon culture’s fabricated illusion that buying pink stuff will solve all our breast cancer woes to blame? Is the media to blame for mostly portraying feel-good type …