Extra Spoons: A Ritalin Experiment

One of the most devastating side effects of my new line of treatment (Enhertu) is the crushing fatigue. This is a type of fatigue that is difficult to describe. It's like every cell has an anchor to it, like each body part is tied to the bed, even my eyelids feel heavy, and taking a … Continue reading Extra Spoons: A Ritalin Experiment

A reshare from AdvancedBreastCancer.net: A new Vocabulary, terms every MBC patient needs to know, H-O

Many of you are aware that I have been writing for AdvancedBreastCancer.net for the last several years. You can read all the articles I’ve published there via this link: https://advancedbreastcancer.net/author/abigail-johnston-esquire, I wanted to share here a series of articles I wrote for them that many of you made suggestions for some time ago … When … Continue reading A reshare from AdvancedBreastCancer.net: A new Vocabulary, terms every MBC patient needs to know, H-O

7th Cancerversary

Amazingly enough, today marks seven (7) years, eighty-four (84) months, three hundred and sixty-four (364) weeks, two thousand five hundred fifty-five (2,555) days, sixty-one thousand three hundred, twenty (61,320) hours, three million six hundred seventy-one thousand two hundred (3,671,200) minutes, and two hundred twenty million seven hundred fifty-two thousand (220,752,000) seconds since I was told … Continue reading 7th Cancerversary

Toxic Positivity

If you google "toxic positivity definition," a variety of resources and websites and memes and books pop up -- it's quite the subject. At a basic level, in my opinion, toxic positivity is when a person sets out to avoid, ignore, suppress, and/or reject all negative emotions or experiences; additionally, when a person attempts to … Continue reading Toxic Positivity

A reshare from Advancedbreastcancer.net: A new Vocabulary, terms MBC patients need to know, A-H

Many of you are aware that I have been writing for AdvancedBreastCancer.net for the last several years. You can read all the articles I’ve published there via this link: https://advancedbreastcancer.net/author/abigail-johnston-esquire, I wanted to share here a series of articles I wrote for them that many of you made suggestions for some time ago … When … Continue reading A reshare from Advancedbreastcancer.net: A new Vocabulary, terms MBC patients need to know, A-H

An update from the first infusion of Enhertu

It’s been quite the few weeks! The first infusion of Enhertu happened on March 1st and we braced ourselves for the outcome. I’d armed myself with a ton of information from a variety of sources and marshaled a rather impressive set of meds to be used as needed. It wasn’t until the pre-meds wore off … Continue reading An update from the first infusion of Enhertu