breast cancer advocacy

Why October Gets Me Thinking About Recurrence

Determining Whether Or Not To Get A Port For Chemotherapy

My Personal Relationship With the Month of October

Cancer Was Not a Gift & It Didn’t Make Me a Better Person: Book Review

My Hot Flash Solution: Remifemin

“I don’t have hot flashes. I have short private vacations in the Tropics.” — Anonymous I found something that relieves the hot flashes and night sweats I get from taking Tamoxifen. Actually, they started with chemo and then just got worse once I began to take Tamoxifen. I’m almost afraid to put this in writing, but after […]

The 2nd Thing You Can Do to Help End Breast Cancer this October

“When we launched Breast Cancer Deadline 2020® almost two years ago, we took inventory of breast cancer research, treatment, prevention and policy, along with the advocacy world. We were faced with the reality that in 20 years, there had been very little progress. It is time to hold everyone — and ourselves — accountable.” — NBCC President, Fran […]

My Breast Reconstruction Experience

This is the post where I explain my specific beast reconstruction process. The mastectomy and reconstruction were very difficult for me, and for many women I’ve spoken to, so this is hard to write about, but important for anyone else going through the process. Once I knew I was going to proceed with a […]

When I Was A Teenager, Bob Dylan Was My Role Model

I have vivid memories of sitting on the ugly green carpet on the floor of my bedroom in front of my small, cheap portable record player, listening to song after song by Bob Dylan on the turntable. It started in my early teens, when I first heard his music on the radio and saved up […]

The Best Advice I Ever Received

I’m participating in a Blog Hop with Midlife Boulevard and the topic for this post is “What’s the best advice I ever received?” I’ve had a lot of good advice in my life, but the most practical and useful for every aspect of my life was from my first boss at my job at a […]

Why October Gets Me Thinking About Recurrence

Determining Whether Or Not To Get A Port For Chemotherapy

A Breast Cancer Super Hero

My Personal Relationship With the Month of October

Cancer Was Not a Gift & It Didn’t Make Me a Better Person: Book Review

HealtheVoices 2016 Conference

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