When I was watching Part 1 of the PBS documentary, Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies, I heard a statement in the opening segment with a certain word in it that immediately hurled me back to when I was diagnosed with breast cancer. Guess the title of this post is a giveaway as to what …
Do we have to put a positive spin on everything, even cancer? Do you ever wonder why people try so hard to turn everything that happens into something positive? Me too. Maybe it’s human nature to look for the silver linings in everything that happens, including the really crappy stuff. Maybe it’s how we explain …
Another Mother’s Day is nearly here. This will be my eighth one without a mother. I totally realize I am lucky to have had a mother in my life well into my own mature adulthood. I fully realize many are not as lucky as me. Far too many have grown up without a mom or …
Five years post diagnosis, what does it mean? I have passed the long-awaited for, highly anticipated five-year mark. It feels a little bit like when I completed primary cancer treatment. It sort of feels like, now what? I’ve been struggling a little bit as to what I should write about this particular juncture. I guess …
It’s astounding to me still how hearing those three little words, you have cancer, or in my case four words, you have “a” cancer, changes things. Once you hear them, you can’t go back. Your old life, your pre-cancer life, is over. Cancer is one of life’s great divides, at least it has been for …