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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I suppose it would be true to say that my entire blog is really one long discussion about my pet peeves. It seems I have quite a lot of pet peeves! Well, today’s post is overtly about a major pet peeve of mine, maybe my number one pet peeve. This post is not about any … Continue reading Pet Peeve Time
"Survivor guilt (or survivor's guilt; also called survivor syndrome or survivor's syndrome) is a mental condition that occurs when a person believes they have done something wrong by surviving a traumatic event when others did not, often feeling self-guilt. The experience and manifestation of survivor's guilt will depend on an individual's psychological profile. When the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders IV(DSM-IV) was … Continue reading Survivor’s Guilt
Right now there’s a bill before Congress called the Metastatic Breast Cancer Access to Care Act (H.R. 2178). It’s the second time it’s been introduced, sponsored this time by Republican Peter King (NY-2) and Democrat Kathy Castor (Fl-14). A companion bill has also been introduced in the Senate by senators Martha McSally (R-AZ) and Chris … Continue reading We need Help!
No Half Measures 