It hasn't happened to me personally yet, however, I've observed several people I know being accused of being negative as they shared their actual, real life experiences with Stage IV metastatic breast cancer. I've read their accounts carefully and realized that I've said the same or similar things in this blog and on other social … Continue reading Negativity
Yoga
When I was pregnant, I went to a few pre-natal yoga classes and despite the fact that I've never been all that flexible, I found that it helped. Once my first baby came and I had to figure out how to fit in work, breastfeeding, pumping, being a mom, etc., yoga fell by the wayside. … Continue reading Yoga
My first week on Piqray and Faslodex
I started Ibrance and Letrozole in August of 2017. Perhaps it is fitting that it was almost two years to the day that I had to change my regimen because of progression. Yes, it's a mild progression and I'm clinging to that. So, I've now been on Piqray and Faslodex for a week and I've … Continue reading My first week on Piqray and Faslodex
Junior Achievement
From JuniorAchievement.org, the role of the Junior Achievement program is as follows: "JA's volunteer-delivered, kindergarten-12th grade programs foster work-readiness, entrepreneurshipand financial literacy skills,and use experiential learning to inspire students to dream big and reach their potential." On May 13, 2019, my husband and I led our son's kindergarten class in the set of lessons entitled "Ourselves" designed … Continue reading Junior Achievement
Our Health Care System is Broken
I understood this from an objective perspective prior to my terminal diagnosis with Stage IV metastatic breast cancer. I have fought with insurance companies for decades as a lawyer and hearing that the system needs to be fixed in some or a lot of ways is not entirely unknown to me as a concept. There … Continue reading Our Health Care System is Broken
On the Night Before School Starts, 2019
My boys go back to school tomorrow, returning to the same elementary school they attended last school year. My eldest, he's 6, is in first grade. He will be, for the first time, in a gifted classroom. My younger son, he's 4, returns as a role model in the LEAP classroom at the same elementary … Continue reading On the Night Before School Starts, 2019
Book Review: And it was Beautiful
I recently discovered the books written by Kara Tippetts, a metster like me, who passed away in March of 2015. Like many of us, she began blogging while writing one of her other books (there are three) and her last book, "And it was Beautiful", is a compilation of her blog posts while going through … Continue reading Book Review: And it was Beautiful
Finding your TRIBE
We've all heard the saying "it takes a village" when applied to child-rearing. I would submit that this same idea applies to life and, particularly, dealing with a terminal illness. Now, as an introvert, I subscribe to the onion theory of relationships, i.e., the closer anyone gets in a relationship to me, the smaller the … Continue reading Finding your TRIBE
So long Ibrance, two years was a good run
Progression was not the news we were hoping for this week, but then the unexpected paths that life has brought us has been par for the course over the last few years. Expecting the unexpected is a difficult adjustment to make and clearly I'm not quite there yet. Two (2) years of stability after the … Continue reading So long Ibrance, two years was a good run
Nancy’s Point 2019 Summer Blogging Challenge
I've never participated in a blog hop before and I look to Nancy Stordahl of Nancy's Point as a bit of a trailblazer in the cancer blogging world. I read some of the responses to her blogging challenge last summer, but I didn't really start blogging until this year. Blogging is, by definition, a mostly … Continue reading Nancy’s Point 2019 Summer Blogging Challenge
No Half Measures 