In a group, everyone has a role—the planner, the comedian, the peacemaker. It just sort of happens, and we rarely even think about our own role in a group. In my cancer support groups, one of my roles is “the person who tells people to call hospice.”
It’s a strange role, and I’m not sure... Read more
Writing your way through breast cancer can mean keeping personal notes, journaling, and communicating with friends and family through blogs or e-mails. Maybe you’ve even written some poems about your experience. At some point though you will probably need to connect to other people who share your cancer... Read more
When Sarah Park, our producer here at HealthCentral, asked me if I would be interested in writing a post about a trial of lapatinib (trade name Tykerb in the US and Tyverb in Europe) for inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) patients, I jumped at the chance. I’ve been reading about this drug for several years now on the mailing list at... Read more
I have two left feet; my son Channing is a fantastic dancer. So what could be more terrifying than having almost a hundred people watching us dance?
Not dancing.
When I was diagnosed with an aggressive form of breast cancer in April 1998, Channing was seventeen, and our daughter Sara was twenty. My husband... Read more
April 23, 1998 Thurs. 7 am
"I have breast cancer. Dr. F’s nurse called a little after 5 pm to tell me. . . .
C was in the bathroom flossing his teeth, but he came back into the bedroom because he could tell something was wrong. When I told him, he was stunned and said, ‘I can’t believe it.’ We... Read more
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