Family – Page 2

It’s Time For My Bi-Annual Oncologist Appointment

I Feel Torn Every Time My Kids Come Home, Then Go Back To School

Time To Throw Away the College Guides

Taught How To Fly

Memories Of My Grandmother’s Cooking

Who Else Remembers Tony Home Perms?

Sh*t Girls Say to Girls with Breast Cancer

“Is it the bad kind?” — Jenny Saldana Fell. On. The. Floor. Laughing. Jenny Saldana is a writer, actress and breast cancer survivor. These are things she heard while going through her own breast cancer story. I love that she kept a sense of humor; this video is shockingly hilarious (if you’ve been through a […]

Cancun Bound

We haven’t gone on a family vacation since November 2009. I just realized that, yesterday. I knew it had been a while, but didn’t realize it was THAT long. My diagnosis was in February 2010, so we missed that whole year because of treatments and surgeries. Tomorrow we leave for Cancun! I. CAN. NOT. WAIT. The […]

I Feel Torn Every Time My Kids Come Home, Then Go Back To School

My 20 year old daughter who’s living at college, is close enough to come home frequently for 1 or 2 day visits almost every week. When she comes home, I get that same eager feeling I got when she would come home from grammar and high school: giddy, happy, heady with excitement to share time with her. Since […]

I’m Just About Ready To Kick Gwyneth Paltrow In the Teeth

The quote above is by Dr. Habib Sadeghi in the latest Gwyneth Paltrow Goop newsletter which I subscribed to a while ago and still haven’t cancelled (although after this one, I may just have to). I take such umbrage at this quote. It bothers me deeply because it insinuates that those of us who have experienced cancer […]

My Daughter and The Relay For Life

“Daughters are angels sent from above to fill our hearts with unending love.” — Unknown Last Friday night, after a particularly whirlwind week fraught with lots of ups and downs and drama, my husband and I went out for dinner and then went to pick up my daughter afterwards at about 10:00 p.m., from her […]