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Why October Gets Me Thinking About Recurrence

Determining Whether Or Not To Get A Port For Chemotherapy

Where I’ll Be Donating My Money This October for Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow

“The snow doesn’t give a soft white damn whom it touches.” — E.E. Cummings My 93 year old mother-in-law attributes the crazy weather we’ve been having lately to the NASA space program. “Ever since they sent those astronauts up there, things have been crazy around here, weather wise.” Her theory is that they did something […]

A Trip To the Oncologist

Today was my 6 month checkup at the cancer center. I go twice a year to have blood work done and meet with my oncologist. It’s usually crowded at the cancer center, but Friday’s are always the worst. Today was no exception, there were already 12 people in the waiting room at 8:30 a.m.; 10 women, […]

A Trip Down Memory Lane to the Cancer Center

“To do what nobody else will do, a way that nobody else can do, in spite of all we go through; is to be a nurse.” — Rawsi Williams Today I had my 2nd routine check up with my oncologist at the hospital. It was my first trip to the cancer center since I’ve finished all of my […]

My Review Of ‘The Interestings’ by Meg Wolitzer

I recently read “The Interestings” by Meg Wolitzer. Be forewarned that I wasn’t immediately drawn in; it took a while before the story grabbed me, but once I found the rhythm of her writing, I became engrossed with the characters, who are well defined and quite, as the title suggests, interesting. The story is a […]

How Angelina Jolie Pitt’s Decision Can Help Us Become Stronger Healthcare Advocates For Ourselves

By now, you’ve heard about and read the March 24th New York Times article, “Diary of a Surgery” by Angelina Jolie. In it, Jolie shares her decision to have a laparoscopic bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy because of her risk factors for both breast and ovarian cancer after having tested positive for carrying the BRCA1 gene mutation. As I woke up that morning […]

Why October Gets Me Thinking About Recurrence

Determining Whether Or Not To Get A Port For Chemotherapy

Where I’ll Be Donating My Money This October for Breast Cancer Awareness Month

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