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Mary Blocksma

posted 01/18/2007, comments (0)

A Cake-Inspired Moment

This week’s my birthday week, and although I’ve passed the age when I’ll divulge which, it’s turning out to be the best one ever. I’m up to one of the scary marker birthdays, which, to my great surprise, is being celebrated twice!The second party is not until tomorrow, but the first was sprung during our January meeting by the four... Read more Chevron

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posted 01/12/2007, comments (0)

Women helping women

A clinical trial about to start in upstate New York will study a group of women undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer, and the effect mind/body activities have on their experience. “The purpose of this study is to find out if women participating in a mind/body program or participating in a support group have better control of nausea and... Read more Chevron

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posted 01/03/2007, comments (0)

Celebrating the New Year: Cancer and Time

As is appropriate in the New Year, I am reflecting on the nature of time, and how our perception of time changes after being diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, such as breast cancer. For me, anyway, time seems more precious every year, even more than a decade after my illness. I don’t like to waste time on doing stuff I don’t enjoy... Read more Chevron

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posted 01/03/2007, comments (0)

Who will YOU be this year?

So, have you made your New Year’s resolutions yet? And no, I don’t mean those regretful vows to NEVER drink on an empty stomach ever again, even at a New Year’s Eve party where good champagne is flowing freely. I mean those promises you make to yourself each year to “be a better person”–to lose weight, stop nagging your spouse, spend... Read more Chevron

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posted 12/28/2006, comment (1)

To President and Betty Ford: Good-Bye and Thanks

For so long I’ve associated Betty Ford with her famous drug and alcohol recovery retreat—the Betty Ford Center—that until the recent flurry of news over her husband’s passing, I’d forgotten that her addiction was preceded by a diagnosis of breast cancer and a mastectomy. Betty Ford may have been the first celebrity—Gerald Ford, had... Read more Chevron

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