breast cancer advocacy

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

13 Facts Everyone Should Know About Metastatic Breast Cancer

Curse You, Winter Storm Hercules!

The holidays were fun but I was pretty much ready to be done with all the fol-de-rol by New Year’s Day. Close to 10 days of family togetherness with non-stop eating and drinking was enough for me, especially when most of the eating consisted of cookies, chocolates, cakes, pies, cheese, butter and red meat. Thursday, […]

Why I Fell In Love With Dr. Susan Love

During this month, a lot of money will be raised for breast cancer. Here’s the organization that I’ll be supporting and why. I hope you’ll consider it when you make your own donations. Dr. Susan Love is the President and Medical Director of The Susan Love Breast Cancer Foundation which is a non-profit organization dedicated to the […]

In a Funk From Tamoxifen

The holidays are here. I’ve been on a roller coaster ride. Turns out Tamoxifen (which I will be taking for the next 5 years) wreaks havoc with your hormones and makes you very moody. DUH. I had sort of forgotten that in the midst of focusing on the other, more concerning side effects, such as […]

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 […]

A White Horse In Ireland

Swirls of mist surrounded Fran and I as we walked through the gates of the abandoned castle ruins. We had barely begun to explore, when we suddenly heard the sound of thunderous, galloping hooves bearing down directly at us with such force that we could feel the ground shaking under our feet. We looked at […]