Getting through breast cancer is hard. It's scary. I tend to look at things in a little different way than most people do, and I think it helped me and it might just be a tool to add to your arsenal of weapons in this fight as well.
After the tears, I sat back and realized that this was just another passage...a new page , or a... Read more
Yesterday, I was stunned to discover that a spider (I assume) bit me on the back side of my arm pit. I only happend to catch a glance of the red, angry welt which is about 1 1/4" long and quite raised as I was getting ready to go to bed and had walked past a mirror.
I was horrified that this was so big and I wasn't aware... Read more
Having cancer is an eye-opening experience, it is also somewhat personal one in that there are many choices which must be made that only we, the person in treatment, can make. What is right for one person, may not be right for another.
For instance, I chose not to have reconstruction surgery. Others have. I just couldn't... Read more
I am a quilter and when I was diagnosed with a recurrence of Breast Cancer (then Stage IV), my friends made me a surprise healing quilt. The quilt was made of blocks upon which my friends and family had written notes to me. This quilt was really useful when I was getting chemotherapy as the infusions made me cold! I took it with me to... Read more
I've been living with breast cancer for 12 years after diagnosis with stage IV breast cancer, and for 15 years after first diagnosis.
When I was first diagnosed, I wanted to know people who had survived for a long time...and that was more so when I was diagnosed with stage IV.
Sometimes sharing with other long term... Read more
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