The Gift: A Day with Others in The Breast Cancer Club
I didn’t want to go. It’s a club I never wanted to join and while I do blog about it, I try to ignore it whenever I can and just pretend I’m normal – or at least as normal as I ever was. But because I...
View ArticleA Different Deflation and Giving Tuesday
As I sat down in my reconstructive surgeon’s waiting room at Brigham and Women’s this afternoon for the first time in months, I had this strange surge of emotion. My mind immediately jumped back to May...
View ArticleThe Healing Garden
I was called into the Healing Garden at Dana-Farber today. Not literally, but something beckoned me to go through those doors, although I haven’t been since my very first visit to this facility last...
View ArticleLove is a Battlefield – With or Without Cancer
For some reason I find it funny that on the same day that Dana-Farber published my blog on Dating and Cancer 101, I went to the House of Blues to see Pat Benatar sing Love is a Battlefield. Yes, I’m a...
View ArticleEmotional Roller Coaster Race
This morning I ran the Susan G. Komen MA Race for the Cure along the very foggy South Boston waterfront, at much too early in the morning for a Sunday. Maybe it was the overcast weather, maybe it was...
View ArticleIt’s all about YOU!
“All you can change is yourself, but sometimes that changes everything.” – Anonymous The past two weeks I’ve been beat up, beat down, sucked in, worn out, and had more extreme highs and lows than a...
View ArticleEmotional Roller Coaster Race
This morning I ran the Susan G. Komen MA Race for the Cure along the very foggy South Boston waterfront, at much too early in the morning for a Sunday. Maybe it was the overcast weather, maybe it was...
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