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 →

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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 … →

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As with so many of my musings, this post is based on a conversation that began on Twitter. Some time ago, a researcher posted a request for "words of #empowerment," from people who have been diagnosed with breast cancer, to be "used in #cancer resources," acknowledging that some verbiage can be patronizing. There was a … Continue reading Empowerment →

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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

The last few weeks have been PACKED with appointments on Zoom and in person, some of those appointments were medical but most were in the context of advocacy, working with various projects and starting a new one. My kiddos also finished up the 2022-2023 school year as of last Friday. Still can't believe I have … Continue reading Advocating within a life with MBC, Spring 2023 →

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