Some of you may already be aware that another beautiful soul was stolen by Stage IV Metastatic Breast Cancer (MBC) recently who I knew rather well. Amanda Waddell Raffenaud took her last breaths in the afternoon of April 3, 2023 and our last text exchange was March 26th -- she liked a few messages I … Continue reading Carrying Loss; A tribute to Amanda Raffenaud
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
AACR Conference 2023
The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) annual conference is in my back yard this year at the the Orange County Convention Center. It started last week, has continued over the weekend and will conclude Wednesday morning. The website for this meeting is extremely robust and you can view all of that here. While I'm … Continue reading AACR Conference 2023
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
Advocacy; Finding Purpose in Adversity
I hope that some of you have had the opportunity to listen to the OurMBCLife podcast episode that dropped last week with the same title as this post. If not, you can access the episode I had the pleasure of producing here. I'm so thankful to the amazing team at OurMBCLife who allowed me to … Continue reading Advocacy; Finding Purpose in Adversity
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
Family planning
There was a discussion recently in one of the online support groups where I spend lots of time these days about family planning after discovery of a germline mutation (a/k/a hereditary predisposition for cancer) that got me thinking. As many of you are aware, I discovered in 2017 that I carry the ATM germline/genetic mutation, … Continue reading Family planning
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
Language, Part II
If you haven't already read the first part of this topic, Language, Part I, you should go read that first. It gives the context for this post and some necessary background. In that first post, I talked about the first of two scenarios where the language utilized in responses to a vulnerable post was (or … Continue reading Language, 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


