Recently, I was asked to participate as a patient partner for a webinar through the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer (MASCC; https://mascc.org) on Precision Medicine for Hormone Receptor Positive Breast Cancer: New Therapies and Supportive Care Strategies. Dr. and Professor Maryam Lustburg and Dr. Aditya Bardia presented about medications and strategies and I … Continue reading Accessing Supportive Care
March 8, 2017, I received my breast cancer diagnosis and on June 27, 2017, I was told that I had actually been Stage IV from the beginning (aka de novo). I've marked the former as my cancerversary for the last seven years (check out the post I wrote in March about that 7th cancerversary here) … Continue reading My 7th Metaversary
Many of you are aware that I have been writing for AdvancedBreastCancer.net for the last several years. You can read all the articles I’ve published there via this link: https://advancedbreastcancer.net/author/abigail-johnston-esquire, I wanted to share here a series of articles I wrote for them that many of you made suggestions for some time ago … When … Continue reading A reshare from AdvancedBreastCancer.net: A new Vocabulary, terms every MBC patient needs to know, P-Z
One of the most devastating side effects of my new line of treatment (Enhertu) is the crushing fatigue. This is a type of fatigue that is difficult to describe. It's like every cell has an anchor to it, like each body part is tied to the bed, even my eyelids feel heavy, and taking a … Continue reading Extra Spoons: A Ritalin Experiment
Time 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
Many of you are aware that I have been writing for AdvancedBreastCancer.net for the last several years. You can read all the articles I’ve published there via this link: https://advancedbreastcancer.net/author/abigail-johnston-esquire, I wanted to share here a series of articles I wrote for them that many of you made suggestions for some time ago … When … Continue reading A reshare from AdvancedBreastCancer.net: A new Vocabulary, terms every MBC patient needs to know, H-O
Time 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
Amazingly enough, today marks seven (7) years, eighty-four (84) months, three hundred and sixty-four (364) weeks, two thousand five hundred fifty-five (2,555) days, sixty-one thousand three hundred, twenty (61,320) hours, three million six hundred seventy-one thousand two hundred (3,671,200) minutes, and two hundred twenty million seven hundred fifty-two thousand (220,752,000) seconds since I was told … Continue reading 7th Cancerversary
Time 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
If you google "toxic positivity definition," a variety of resources and websites and memes and books pop up -- it's quite the subject. At a basic level, in my opinion, toxic positivity is when a person sets out to avoid, ignore, suppress, and/or reject all negative emotions or experiences; additionally, when a person attempts to … Continue reading Toxic Positivity
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