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The Faces of Breast Cancer

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

The 4 Books that I Found To Be The Most Helpful During Breast Cancer

How To Survive a Breast MRI

I Got Breast Cancer And Then Decided To Put In A Pool

Happy Father’s Day

Oh yeah, that’s me with my Dad, probably about 4 years old. How adorable was I and how freakin’ handsome was he? “It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.” — Anne Sexton My dad was so handsome when I was growing up. He was very tall and skinny with jet black […]

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 […]

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 […]

The 7 Things I Wish I Knew When I Was First Diagnosed With Breast Cancer

4 years ago today I found the lump that changed my life. I won’t call it the anniversary or even my cancerversary, as I’ve heard it called, because there is truly nothing to celebrate about in such an event. But I do want to make note of the day by sharing some information for anyone else […]

How Eleanor Roosevelt Helped Me With My Latest OBGYN Visit

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.” –Eleanor Roosevelt Crappin’ monkeys. Once you have breast cancer, every doctor visit becomes way escalated. In the days pre-breast cancer, my typical OBGYN visit […]