A Patient’s Perspective Oof. Cancer is lonely. It’s such a confusing thing to say seeing as there are scores of people diagnosed with cancer all of the time…and specifically here, in this lovely #Pinktober,
I was so honored to get to spend time with a dear friend today, a day after her lumpectomy. She is incredible. Her strength, her beauty, her faith, her humor, her authenticity. She is
It is with me. Always. I bump my elbow and scream out in pain.I have an incessant itch on a patch of skin.I feel tension in my lower back.I see more hair in my
Chemotherapy. Like any other word, will mean something different to each person. To the patient. The caregiver. The close family and friends. The distant ones. The doctors and nurses. The receptionists checking in the
I have found it interesting that even three years later, October 9 looms. I’ve been all-consumed with what the date has been for the last many days, even into the last few weeks. “Are
A friend so lovingly encouraged me today. She said, “I’m actually thankful that you continue to process all that cancer diagnosis and treatment and survivorship has been for you instead of rushing through it.”
A Breast Cancer Survivor’s Perspective on Breast Cancer Month Oh October. You are a most difficult month as you hold some of my most difficult memories. And if that weren’t enough, around every corner
We often don’t give credit to our feelings and what they can teach us. Using feeling words, describe a time or experience of transformation in your life. Life offers lessons for each of us. What would
Foggy head. A struggle to focus. Dreadful body pain. A stagnation of progress. Complacency to exist. A sadness so very deep. My heart, heavy with memories of waking up in a hospital room, holes
My first step is coming to grips with the word, ‘survivor.’ I have a love/hate relationship with that word. My gut instinct is to hate it, yet I can’t quite put my finger on