About 30% of people diagnosed with breast cancer at any stage will develop distal metastasis. I am one.
A few of my thoughts You know how we say that something resonates with us? The word literally means that it reverberates, creates an echo in us. That is how I felt when the moment I saw this absolutely spot-on cartoon by Teva Harrison. I felt that it was ping-ponging around...
Sherri Fillipo is a now-retired registered nurse. On her blog she writes “This is my story – living and dying with metastatic breast cancer. Once a nurse and now a patient, I love how seaglass captures what cancer has done for me – softened and rounded my hard edges. Like the...
Part I is here. I joined groups for metastatic breast cancer, overflowing with positive pink attitude, as I started to adjust to a different way of thinking, maybe it wasn’t curable, per se, but it was manageable. A chronic condition, like diabetes. I’d be fine. I could manage this. The...
In 2010 when I was 37, I found a lump in my breast one afternoon. The cold weather was making it hurt, and it itched. I tried to locate it again later, but failed. It seemed to come and go, coinciding with my period, and always itched, always hurt. Everything...
Liza Weeks Mayeske, a young mother of two little boys, died yesterday from metastatic breast cancer. It happened so fast. On June 19th she posted this on her public Facebook page: I’m still on oxygen and bed and wheelchair ridden, but my tachycardia seems to have gotten a little better...
Today I am pleased and honored to present a guest post by my friend Holly Lamont. Holly is only 40 years old and she has had to retire from the job she loved because of metastatic breast cancer. This post was her Facebook status on June 5th, and she has...
Pink-to-ber n A portmanteau coinage used by many people who live with breast cancer to refer to October, the Breast Cancer Awareness Month, which is heavily dominated by marketing in the color pink and cute tags like “Save the tatas”. (See Komen, etc.) During the month of October 2013, I...
Pink-to-ber n A portmanteau coinage used by many people who live with breast cancer to refer to October, the Breast Cancer Awareness Month, which is heavily dominated by marketing in the color pink and cute tags like “Save the tatas”. (See Komen, etc.) During the month of October 2013, I...
Pink-to-ber n A portmanteau coinage used by many people who live with breast cancer to refer to October, the Breast Cancer Awareness Month, which is heavily dominated by marketing in the color pink and cute tags like “Save the tatas”. (See Komen, etc.) During the month of October 2013, I am running guest...
