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.

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

2021 Webinars in Partnership with SBC, the second quarter

Before writing about the truly wonderful guests we welcomed to the webinar series, I must first acknowledge that one of the people responsible for the impetus of this series has died. Alyson Tischler was pivotal in my life and grief process. We talked a lot about grief and she was involved in the first live … Continue reading 2021 Webinars in Partnership with SBC, the second quarter →

Weekly Round-Up from Journeying Beyond Breast Cancer

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

Thank you

Appreciate all of you who checked in on me in relation to my jaw surgery. It was supposed to have happened on Friday but was moved to yesterday, Monday. Had a kickass team and am resting comfortably with the right meds. I’m not 100% yet. My body is definitely responding differently to the trauma of … Continue reading Thank you →

Weekly Round-Up from Journeying Beyond Breast Cancer

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

I’m so tired …

… it’s a tiring to be a forever patient, handle all that comes with the diagnosis and the treatment, learn about all of the things that I need to know and understand to make good decisions, advocate for myself and others, be a mom and wife and friend. I spend all my spoons every day … Continue reading I’m so tired … →

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

Triggers

I've begun to understand better how often I am "triggered" by a variety of things and how that relates back to traumas I've undergone in my life, especially living with Stage IV Metastatic Breast Cancer (MBC) since my de novo diagnosis in 2017. Identifying and defining a trigger is often helpful for me to understand … Continue reading Triggers →

Shared Decision Making

This concept of Shared Decision Making is a relatively new one for me and so, as usual, I want to start with a definition. This one is a good general definition from a handout from http://www.healthit.gov: Shared decision making is a key component of patient- centered health care. It is a process in which clinicians … Continue reading Shared Decision Making →