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.

Podcasting & Webinars

I've written before about podcasting and how I've learned a lot about podcasting, which seems to be an ever growing industry. You can read that post and the specifics about a live podcast that I did earlier in 2020 here. Now that celebrities and famous people like Michelle Obama are getting into podcasting, I think … Continue reading Podcasting & Webinars →

BCAM; October 4th

Remember a few days ago when I talked about SEER and how those of us with Metastatic Breast Cancer (MBC) aren't counted correctly? Well, that lack of accuracy affects a lot more than just knowing how many people are living with MBC, it also affects how we know the risk of those who have been … Continue reading BCAM; October 4th →

BCAM; October 3rd

When my mom had breast cancer 16 years ago, I thought all breast cancer was the same or similar enough to be virtually indistinguishable. Boy, was I wrong! There are, right now, eight (8) different subtypes and scientists are learning more about them all the time. Different subtypes tend to spread to different parts of … Continue reading BCAM; October 3rd →

BCAM; October 2nd

In the Metastatic Breast Cancer (MBC) Community, we gain and lose men and women every day. We know that approximately 116 men and women die in the US every day from MBC, but we don't know how many are diagnosed since the SEER database doesn't count us correctly. I'll share more about this later in … Continue reading BCAM; October 2nd →

BCAM: October 1st

Breast Cancer Awareness Month (BCAM) has begun and today I want to address why this is a difficult month for those of us living with Stage IV Metastatic Breast Cancer (MBC). The sad fact of the matter is that BCAM has been traditionally overtaken with the pink-wearing, boa wearing, bra-on-the-outside-of-the-clothes wearing, hooping and hollering, dancing … Continue reading BCAM: October 1st →

STOP The Sexualization of Breast Cancer

Before I was diagnosed with breast cancer, I put together a team each year to raise funds and walk in fundraisers for breast cancer. Our team was called "The Legal Eagles for Healthy Hooters." We thought ourselves quite clever. The walks were extremely meaningful to me in light of the fact that my mother and … Continue reading STOP The Sexualization of Breast Cancer →

Medical Update; My big toe

I'm amazing at how many weird things we've discovered about my body since I'm scanned regularly and often. So many things that I would never have known about have been found and then we've had to figure out if they mean anything. That process can be fraught with angst since I/we automatically assume that anything … Continue reading Medical Update; My big toe →

RBG, Part II

Last week, I talked about how Justice Ginsberg inspires all of us to live a life of service to others, to look at the greater good and how we can each contribute. Her life demonstrates how one person can do so much to affect the trajectory of culture and I find that to be incredibly … Continue reading RBG, Part II →

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

RBG, Part I

Last Friday, the 18th of September, the world lost a force of nature. Ruth Bader Ginsberg (a/k/a RBG) was murdered (and I mean that literally) by metastatic pancreatic cancer, after a long and illustrious career, after dealing with cancer multiple times and working through it, after leaving her indelible mark on the world. She left … Continue reading RBG, Part I →