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Why October Gets Me Thinking About Recurrence

It’s Spring and that means it’s baseball season. I happen to have a love/hate relationship with the game of baseball. Which is kind of tricky because every spring and summer for the past 12 years my life has been consumed with this sport. My husband started my son out in T-Ball when he was about […]

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

I love to read and one of the side benefits of having breast cancer was that I had time where I couldn’t do anything but read for hours on end during chemo and it’s aftermath. Here are my 4 favorite books that helped me during this time. Immediately below are the two books that helped […]

I Wish I’d Hired the Expensive Plastic Surgeon

One of the things I wish I’d handled differently in my breast cancer process is that I wish I’d had this one plastic surgeon who was touted as being “the best” in the area, perform my breast reconstruction. I had a couple of meetings with him, we had agreed to the type of procedure (expanders with […]

A Breast Cancer Rant

Be forewarned: This is a breast cancer rant. I don’t usually give in to the level of fear and obsession I’ve been feeling lately, but I want to get it out and onto paper so that I can move on. I think about cancer every day. I worry that I’ll have a recurrence every day. […]

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 […]

Why October Gets Me Thinking About Recurrence

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