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My Mastectomy Decision

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What To Give to Someone Who’s Diagnosed With Cancer

My Breast Reconstruction Experience

A List Of the 15 Most Important Things I Learned From Breast Cancer

“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” — Annie Dillard This month I’ve been reflecting on some of the life lessons I learned from breast cancer. Most of them are still relevant now, 3 years later: Image: © alswart / Fotolia.com 1. Life is short. Make (and check items […]

Christmas With New Pets

Christmas was a bit of a let down this year; a little anticlimactic. Now that the kids are 16 and 18, there’s no mystery about the day. They both asked for very specific gifts and didn’t want any surprises. Unlike Christmases in the past, they both slept late. They used to get up at dawn […]

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.” — Jonathan Safran Foer I love books. I just finished reading Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, by Jonathan Safran Foer. I wanted to read it before the movie came out so that I […]

Determining Whether Or Not To Get A Port For Chemotherapy

One of the things I thought would be helpful for my readers is an overview of the pros and cons of getting a port inserted to have your chemotherapy treatments delivered, versus a manually administered new IV needle for each chemo treatment. WARNING: If you’re freaked out by needles, you might not want to […]

My Mastectomy Decision

My 10 Coping Tools to Get Through My Breast Cancer Diagnosis

What To Give to Someone Who’s Diagnosed With Cancer

My Breast Reconstruction Experience

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