“Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God’s handwriting – a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every face, in every sky, in every flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.” ~  Ralph Waldo Emerson At...

I am so friggin’ happy because tomorrow I go in for my breast reduction surgery (you can find more information about it at plasticsurgery.org).  To me this signals the end of this part of the journey!  The end of cancer treatments (as much as it can...

Fear of the what ifs and I didn’t even know I was scared. I didn’t realize how affected I was going to be by this morning’s mammogram.  It was my 3-month check-up for my left-side (where the cancer car-wrecked my life) and my annual for my...

This whole cancer ordeal just seems to go on and on doesn’t it?  I was mistaken that once I finished treatments that it’d be all over, cause it ain’t. I’m better about it now, but I remember earlier this year, I worried every time I went in for my...

This is an interesting series on CNN Health that I just found out about, and they had this great article on options that I just had to share! http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/10/24/breast.cancer.options/ Tagged: breast cancer options, empowered patient