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

It’s Pride month …

and living here in Florida means this month is especially poignant. I recently wrote this article for AdvancedBreastCancer.net about what being an ally to those in the LGBTQIA+ community looks like from a Stage IV Metastatic Breast Cancer (MBC) perspective. Here's the bottom line for me .... we are all different human beings and deserve … Continue reading It’s Pride month … →

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

Empowerment

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 →