breast cancer advocacy

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

Life Is A Great Big Canvas

It’s been a busy work week. I hope you’re all out there throwing some paint on the canvas of your lives! I’ll be back soon. Just wanted to check in and say hi because I miss you, readers!

A Book to Help You Prepare for Chemotherapy: “Getting Past the Fear” by Nancy Stordahl

One of the things that scared me the most during my breast cancer process was the fact that I was going to have to go through chemotherapy. When I first found out that I’d need chemo, I panicked and spent hours and hours on the phone with friends and family members who all generously helped […]

Spring Has Sprung

The Winter That Would Not End is finally over and today on my morning walk with Tucker, I saw the first signs of spring. Tucker is 11 years old this year, which is 77 in dog years, so our daily walks are more like strolls than the brisk activity we used to enjoy. Interestingly, our […]

HealtheVoices 2016 Conference

This weekend I’m attending HealtheVoices 2016, a healthcare advocates blogging conference in Chicago, Illinois. I’m kind of excited, kind of nervous, as I always get when I’ll be in large crowds of people I don’t know (yet). It’s really well organized and they’ve already sent out a list of the 100 or so attendees with […]

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 […]