I have Stage 4 breast cancer. However, I am also in clinical remission, with no sign of cancer in my liver (which was once riddled with tumours).
What does this mean?
We can assume that there are still cancer cells in my body and that, eventually, we will find new tumors. Until that time, I undergo chemotherapy and... Read more
Before I first started
chemotherapy, in 2006, I attended an orientation session, in which, among other
things, we were told that if we threw up on our clothes after treatment, we
were to bring them in to the cancer centre to be incinerated.
Chemotherapy is toxic, scary stuff.
Now, as I wrote earlier in the
week, not... Read more
I first went through chemotherapy from March to June of
2006. I did just six rounds, and it was about the hardest thing I have ever had
to endure. I remember saying at the time, “I have to get through this and it
has to work because I am never doing
this again.”
Well, I did end up having to do it again, just six... Read more
Telling my oldest son that I had cancer was very, very hard.
Telling him that it had come back was even harder.
S. was seven years old when I was first diagnosed. A couple
of weeks before my surgery (right before I took a leave from my job) we sat
down with him and, following the cancer centre social worker’s advice,... Read more
Two
things I have learned as a parent with cancer:
Keeping the lines of
communication open, in a way that is appropriate for the age and
personality of your child, is extremely important
Kids are extremely
resilient.
When
it comes to talking to kids about cancer, I do not believe that there is a ‘one
size... Read more
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