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
Service
Most of the time, when I look up a definition to start a blog post, there's one or two entries and examples. Not for service, there are pages of definitions! For today, I'm paring down the definitions to the ones that are specific to what I want to talk about in this blog post. Service … Continue reading Service
Freedom from makeup
I'm probably a what would be termed a "late bloomer" when it comes to the traditional "girly" stuff. I frankly never much cared for experimenting with hair and makeup and clothing was something much more functional than decorative to me. I managed to live most of my growing up years with this perspective and was … Continue reading Freedom from makeup
Womanhood, motherhood, whateverhood
I read a statement recently by a breast cancer survivor about redefining womanhood. She’d decided to go flat after her mastectomy and she’d had a complete hysterectomy that removed all of her lady parts from the cervix to her womb. Her point, and I’m paraphrasing, was that those biological parts of her did not define … Continue reading Womanhood, motherhood, whateverhood
No Half Measures 