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?

Happy Birthday To My 16 Year Old Son

10 years old “Your son will hold your hand only for a little while. But he will hold your heart for a lifetime.” — Anonymous Today is my son’s 16th birthday. One of the reasons I started My Left Breast was to leave a legacy for my kids in the event that something were to […]

Dense Breasts: The Secret You Need To Know

When I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2010 I was told by the mammography radiologist that I had dense breasts. This was the first time I had ever heard this and I’d been getting mammograms for 10 years. © Tyler Olson – Fotolia.com In fact, I had never heard of dense breasts before and […]

Four Positive Side Effects from Chemotherapy

I decided to list the positive side effects of the whole chemo process, ’cause I’ve sure been complaining about all of the negatives. Believe it or not, there are some good things, too. 1. I now have the hardest, most unbreakable fingernails you’ll ever see. For some reason, the Taxol made my fingernails really strong. […]

Post Christmas Bliss

Today is the day after Christmas and I think it’s my favorite day of the year. All of the anticipation and anxiety associated with gift giving is over, and lo and behold, everyone seems happy with what they got. Everyone behaved yesterday and we all had a great, if haphazard dinner. I just couldn’t get […]

Bitches Get Stuff Done – BAMC15

A couple of weekends ago I went to Nashville, Tennessee for the Bloggers at Midlife Conference, a conference for a group of wonderful women bloggers. I was excited about the chance to meet many of the women whose blogs I’ve been reading over the past year and hoping to learn some new information about blogging that I wasn’t aware […]