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An Open Letter To Myself About Breast Cancer

The Last Leg Of the Great French Adventure: Normandy

The Great French Adventure: Last Day in Paris

The Great French Adventure: Part 2

How Angelina Jolie Pitt’s Decision Can Help Us Become Stronger Healthcare Advocates For Ourselves

13 Facts Everyone Should Know About Metastatic Breast Cancer

How Angelina Jolie Pitt’s Decision Can Help Us Become Stronger Healthcare Advocates For Ourselves

By now, you’ve heard about and read the March 24th New York Times article, “Diary of a Surgery” by Angelina Jolie. In it, Jolie shares her decision to have a laparoscopic bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy because of her risk factors for both breast and ovarian cancer after having tested positive for carrying the BRCA1 gene mutation. As I woke up that morning […]

The Top 5 Ways To Prepare For Dropping Your Child Off At College

Two weekends ago I took my 18 year old daughter to college. We flew out together to a campus on the other side of the country, where I helped her move into her dorm room, bought her a veritable sh**t load of dorm supplies at Target, helped her buy her text books (meaning I provided […]

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 Mental Battle With An Elliptical Machine

“Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it.” — Plato Big win. I started exercising again. I haven’t exercised since January of 2010. OK, I walk the dog a lot, but given his meandering around and the fact that he stops […]

How To Survive a Breast MRI

I have had several people ask me about how to get through having a breast MRI done, so here are my suggestions on how to prepare for one. I’m really claustrophobic, so you can imagine my concern when the MRI technician told me that the procedure takes 45 minutes (yup, that’s roughly how long it […]

An Open Letter To Myself About Breast Cancer

The Last Leg Of the Great French Adventure: Normandy

The Great French Adventure: Last Day in Paris

The Great French Adventure: Part 2

How Angelina Jolie Pitt’s Decision Can Help Us Become Stronger Healthcare Advocates For Ourselves

13 Facts Everyone Should Know About Metastatic Breast Cancer

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