Breast Cancer Awareness

I just can’t stop playing in the dirt. It brings back my childhood. It also brings back all the hours I spent with my flowers thinking/dreading that I was going to die of cancer “in six months.” That was over ten years ago. Then, there were the countless hours I spent with the kids when […]

In my last post, item #4 mentioned that I need to go to the eye doctor, but I just can’t bring myself to go: I have complete doctor burnout. I’m in need of an optometrist for the fact that I am blind as a bat. I find myself reaching for the cheater reading glasses more […]

And once again, it is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Like I’ve said before, I don’t like how breast cancer seems to get the most attention out of all the cancers. Maybe I’m just hypersensitive to all the pink ribbons everywhere, having gone through breast cancer myself. Here is my list of reasons I’m very aware […]

And once again, it’s that time of year where I pause to commemorate the day I was diagnosed with Stage III “locally-advanced” breast cancer. 4/3/2009: Diagnosis 4/3/2010: Vacation to Gleneden, Oregon 4/3/2011: Got me 4/3/2012: Hiking in the rain 4/3/2013: Shopping and breakfast 4/3/2014: Trip to Redmond, Oregon 4/3/2015: Tree-planting I still can’t believe it. […]

Phew, October is over. I love fall and all, but get sick of the hot pink plastered all over and the endless commercials for breast cancer. There are so many other cancers out there; why does breast cancer get the most airtime? Here is my list for this year: 1.  I fret almost daily over […]

Every year, I take pause to write a blog entry on the anniversary of my cancer diagnosis. Here is what I have done to mark time in the past: 4/3/2009: Diagnosis and road trip to California 4/3/2010: Vacation in Gleneden, Oregon 4/3/2011: Got me 4/3/2012: Hiking in the rain 4/3/2013: Shopping and breakfast with a […]

Today is Breast Cancer Awareness Day. As you know, I make a list on this day of all the reasons I—personally—am aware of breast cancer: 1. I am still seeing my massage therapist to prevent the lymphedema in my right arm (following a mastectomy) from getting any worse. 2. I am a little more aware […]

Not only am I celebrating wedding anniversaries, I’m celebrating the fact that our last child, Jonathan, graduated high school. Yippee! Yahooey! Boy-Howdy! No more tuition payments for us. Now we can start concentrating on my bucket list. As you know, item #1 on my bucket list is to install a dream kitchen. Before we can […]

Over the past few years, I’ve sure been doing a lot of celebrating. I think people that go through cancer tend to do that. Ken and I celebrated twenty-four years of marriage on May 25. Hokey-doodle, I can’t believe it’s been that long. When I was first diagnosed in April of 2009, Ken and I […]