Here are some of my more recent posts
26 May 2015
When I was 17, I wanted to become a mom at age 25. When I was 25, I was still pursuing an education and working towards a career. When […]
27 April 2015
Phase 4 consisted of taking a drug called Tamoxifen for 5 years. This medication is the usual anti-estrogen therapy for hormone receptor-positive breast cancer in pre-menopausal […]
14 April 2015
During one of my check-ups, a genetic counselor came to talk to me about genetic testing. Young women with breast cancer have an increased risk of […]
8 April 2015
Phase 3 was radiation therapy or radiotherapy, often abbreviated RT, RTx, or XRT. In preparation for this phase, I had to get a picture taken so […]
31 March 2015
A few months after my miscarriage my ex and I moved from the city to a suburb of Boston. We wanted more space and we planned […]
23 March 2015
I kept thinking about ways to help other young women recently diagnosed with breast cancer so I dug up this snail mail letter from an oncologist […]
17 March 2015
During Phase 2 I felt a little bit more tired and fatigued. I felt that chemotherapy was taking a toll on my body. I started to […]
11 March 2015
I am lucky to have survived. Part of that wasn’t really luck at all. It was the support I had around – not only from D […]
6 March 2015
I want to preface this post by saying that this is my version of things, my perspective. I understand and respect that my ex-husband would have […]
17 February 2015
For the majority of women, the most dreaded part of going through chemotherapy is losing their hair. It is pretty easy to understand why. Hair is […]
12 February 2015
I can say with all certainty that 2006 was not my year. I had a miscarriage in March and in September I found out about my […]
