Author: Abigail Johnston

I'm a daughter, a wife, a mother, and I've been living with Stage IV Metastatic Breast Cancer since March, 2017. All of the words I publish are my own.

Mixing it up

When I was diagnosed with Stage IV Metastatic Breast Cancer (MBC) in 2017, I slowly turned to support groups and social media in general to connect with other patients after I was told not to come to an in person local support group because I would scare the participants (you can read more about that … Continue reading Mixing it up →

Weekly Round-Up

T for this week’s round-up of the best of the blog posts which I’ve read over the past week. These are the posts that have moved me, taught me …Weekly Round-Up

Managing Healthcare Challenges, Part II

This post is a follow up to the first part, which were all the things I recommend doing when there isn't a specific challenge with your health care team. You can access the first part here. I want to reiterate that many of the solutions I've found are available to me because I'm a cis-gendered … Continue reading Managing Healthcare Challenges, Part II →

ReBlog from Journeying Beyond Breast Cancer: Weekly Round-Up

T for this week’s round-up of the best of the blog posts which I’ve read over the past week. These are the posts that have moved me, taught me … Weekly Round-Up

Managing Healthcare Challenges, Part I

If you've followed me on this blog or social media for any length of time, you've likely been exposed to some of the frustrations I've experienced when accessing the United States healthcare system as a terminal cancer patient. Prior to my diagnosis of Stage IV Metastatic Breast Cancer (MBC) in 2017, I'd rarely accessed the … Continue reading Managing Healthcare Challenges, Part I →

ReBlog: Journeying Beyond Breast Cancer Weekly Round-Up

T for this week’s round-up of the best of the blog posts which I’ve read over the past week. These are the posts that have moved me, taught me … Weekly Round-Up

Outliers/Unicorns/Exceptional Responders/Outliving Statistics

This post is a follow up to the one I published last week on the 6th anniversary of learning that I'd had Stage IV Metastatic Breast Cancer (MBC) from the beginning (a/k/a de novo). You can read that previous post here. Based on some of the feedback and comments from that earlier post and other … Continue reading Outliers/Unicorns/Exceptional Responders/Outliving Statistics →

ReBlog from Journeying Beyond Breast Cancer: Weekly Round-Up

T for this week’s round-up of the best of the blog posts which I’ve read over the past week. These are the posts that have moved me, taught me … Weekly Round-Up

On outliving the statistics …

June 27, 2017 was the day that we learned for sure that I had Stage IV Metastatic Breast Cancer (MBC). It was the conversation where my medical oncologist at the time (he since retired) said that instead of cancer being something that I wouldn't die from and could be curable, Stage IV meant that there … Continue reading On outliving the statistics … →

ReBlog from Journeying Beyond Breast Cancer: Weekly Round-Up

T for this week’s round-up of the best of the blog posts which I’ve read over the past week. These are the posts that have moved me, taught me … Weekly Round-Up