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
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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
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
Envisioning Wellness – My Journey Back to Good 