Next month marks 11 years since my breast cancer diagnosis. While I am grateful to be cancer-free for this long, the journey has been anything but easy. As a breast cancer survivor, the thought of cancer is always in the back of my mind. Due to my Lynch Syndrome status, I am at risk for … Continue reading SGAP Surgery: A Survivor’s Journey Back to Wellness
Category: Breast Cancer
Ramping Up My Detox Game & How You Can Too
Suppose you've been cancer-free for ten years and recently received a diagnosis of Hashimoto's disease. Despite leading a mostly healthy lifestyle, you are experiencing symptoms such as chronic fatigue, brain fog, muscle loss, and shortness of breath. During this time, you also discovered you have a post-mastectomy ruptured silicone implant that could be the underlying … Continue reading Ramping Up My Detox Game & How You Can Too
Hashimoto’s & Ruptured Implants – Three-month Follow-up
Three months have passed since I first received my diagnosis of Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis, an autoimmune disease that causes your body to attack the thyroid. Although the standard of care is to treat this with thyroid medicine, I knew I needed to find out what was causing my body to create antibodies that attack my thyroid. … Continue reading Hashimoto’s & Ruptured Implants – Three-month Follow-up
Breast Cancer Awareness Month – Focus on Prevention
What can we do to commemorate Breast Cancer Awareness Month? Honoring those whom the disease has touched by donating, walking, and wearing pink are all encouraged, but let's not forget the most important thing we can do is to be our own health advocates. As women, especially mothers, we tend to prioritize others first. I … Continue reading Breast Cancer Awareness Month – Focus on Prevention
What Breast Cancer Taught Me
Today marks ten years of being cancer-free, and I wanted to share a column I originally wrote for the Beacon Magazine in 2013. It’s still as relevant today as it was then. Breast cancer has brought me face-to-face with my mortality and helped change my life perspective. Some things that once seemed so important no longer are. … Continue reading What Breast Cancer Taught Me
My Journey Back to Good Continues
I started this blog in 2013 while going through breast cancer. It was a short-lived journal to document my “Journey back to good.” Ten years later, I’ve felt the tug to write again. I’m beyond grateful to have made it this far and still be cancer-free. I’ve spent the last ten years trying to figure … Continue reading My Journey Back to Good Continues
Cancer is a word, not a sentence!
Cancer is a word, not a sentence! <-- Click on this link to see the original artwork by Theartsatichipter! I love this saying because it is a good reminder. I Googled the saying and found this link to a drawing Theartsatichipster did. Simple, yet so meaningful to all those who have been touched by this dreaded disease. ❤
Breast Cancer Awareness Month
October is well known for being Breast Cancer Awareness Month. In years past I have always posted the pink ribbons in support for those fighting it. This year, it had a whole different meaning to me. I was the person people were wearing pink for! Personally I think more emphasis should be put on getting … Continue reading Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Three weeks – Are you kidding me?
July 8, 2013 – The waiting was killing me. When will they set the date for surgery? Will it be next week? Am I prepared? I finally get the call from Ilene at Dr. Shapiro's office. The surgery was scheduled for July 30th at 8am. July 30th? That's three weeks away. Are you kidding me? … Continue reading Three weeks – Are you kidding me?
Get those Mammies Grammed!
Regret serves no purpose and it certainly does not help the healing process in any way. I just sometime can't help but wonder how much easier recovering from and treating my breast cancer would have been had I not skipped two years of mammograms. Would the tumor have been smaller? Would it only be non-invasive … Continue reading Get those Mammies Grammed!
Envisioning Wellness – My Journey Back to Good 