Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I have had several people ask me about how to get through having a breast MRI done, so here are my suggestions on how to prepare for one. I’m really claustrophobic, so you can imagine my concern when the MRI technician told me that the procedure takes 45 minutes (yup, that’s roughly how long it […]

An Inspirational Story of Breast Cancer From a 35 Year Old Woman In Portugal

“My message for all the women that may be affected by breast cancer: Live your normal life, do everything (of course with some limitations) but don’t give up!” –– Carla Amorim Today’s post is a guest post from Carla Amorim, a 35 year old breast cancer survivor from Portugal. I’ve never met Carla face to […]

The 10 Things I’m Most Grateful For This Thanksgiving

That Oprah Winfrey is pretty damn wise. These are not easy words to live into. We live in a life filled with what if’s and if only’s. To be consistently thankful for what you have and where you are in life is to experience life in the moment, to be here now. Here are the […]

Before Breast Cancer, I Used To DO Life. Now I EXPERIENCE Life.

In the back of my mind I’m almost always thinking about what my next blog post will be. There are days, weeks even, where I just don’t want to write about breast cancer, think about breast cancer or even remind myself that I had breast cancer. And on those days, I start to think that I […]

Little Victories

“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.” — Anne Bradstreet It feels like spring today and I decided to put up our spring season flag to replace the winter one I’ve had up on our flagpole for the past few months. As […]

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