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Living in the Paradox
Prologue – This year has been heavy. The kind of heavy that seeps into your bones and sits there, unmovable. Too many women I’ve known through metastatic breast cancer are gone now, and their absence lingers like a shadow. I keep wondering when my story might start to sound more like theirs. I live with…
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August 21: Phase one complete
Fast facts (if you don’t have time to read the full post): 1,047 days after my double mastectomy, I finally had my DIEP flap breast reconstruction surgery! It has been a long time coming after a mandatory year waiting period, ups and downs with oral medications required to keep me alive, and two failed surgery…
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More Than a Slogan: Rethinking Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Prologue – October is a hard month for me and for some reason I have really struggled this year more than the previous two. I am one of the estimated 200,000 women living in the US with stage IV breast cancer. Is this disease treatable? Yes, but sometimes the disease outruns currently available treatment options.…
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