Laurie Kingston reflects on her experience at the BlogHer conference, which took place earlier this month in San Francisco.
When I meet someone new, I don’t usually introduce myself by
saying, “I’m Laurie and I have cancer.”
In fact, there are many people I know only casually who have
no idea that I have... Read more
The blogging community lost a powerful voice last week, with the passing of Andrea Collins-Smith, otherwise known as Punk Rock Mommy. On July 5, Andrea lost her year-long battle with inflammatory breast cancer. She was 38 years old.
I only became of aware of Andrea's blog after I joined the group blog Mothers With Cancer in early June (I... Read more
Recently, on a morning that I had to go for chemotherapy, my five year old son drew me a picture. It depicts him and me, walking in the sunshine and holding hands. We have big smiles on our faces.
He made me promise that I would take it with me to chemo and post it where everyone could see it. "It will make you feel better," he... Read more
I do not believe that cancer itself is a "gift." However, cancer, or more accurately the process of living through it, has given me many things.
Among these gifts is a new sense of perspective.
I shrug off slights that would have had me stewing for days.
I spend less time worrying about the things that are... Read more
On Sunday, the New York Times ran an interesting article on Avastin, a drug that has been mentioned to me several times, as the latest breakthrough in the fight against metastatic cancer.
Avastin (the generic name is Bevacizumab) is made by Genentech and is very expensive. The article described how some are calling into question whether... Read more
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