Travel

Why October Gets Me Thinking About Recurrence

The Last Leg Of the Great French Adventure: Normandy

The Great French Adventure: Last Day in Paris

The Great French Adventure: Trip to the Local Gendarmerie

The Great French Adventure: Part 3

The Great French Adventure: Part 2

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 […]

Letting Go of The Wig

Today I donated my wig from last years chemo days to a local group that refurbishes wigs for cancer patients going through chemo. With my sister Sue, in NYC, wearing my wig, towards the end of my chemo treatments. The wig has been meandering around my bedroom for a while. When I first stopped wearing […]

My 5 Year Remission Day

Five years ago today I found the lump in my left breast. I’ve been trying to figure out what to say about it and what to call today. Is it an anniversary? A cancerversary? A 5 year celebration of survivorship? I’m very literal, words mean a lot to me, and it’s important to me that I use the […]

A Day of Thanks, Post Mastectomy

Be grateful for what you have in your life. What you have right now is just what you’re supposed to have, be happy with it and don’t look for something else. Be here now, this is what you’re supposed to be doing. The biggest mistake would be if you didn’t learn from it. So it’s […]

My Left Breast Site Redesign!

Welcome to the new and improved My Left Breast! For a long time I’ve wanted to move from my simple site on Blogger to WordPress; spending hours trying to fathom what the heck the tutorials on migration from one platform to another meant, going cross-eyed over words like HTML, code, meta data, widgets and tagging, which all just sound […]