Tag Archives: cancer
sometimes you read something and say “this.”
A friend of mine writes on sub stack. She used to be an oncology nurse. She’s also an artist so she shared this post from a fellow artist and it so resonated with me. 💄 Spin My 100th post discusses … Continue reading
it’s 2025…here’s a reminder or two.
Hello there all. Happy 2025. I am still alive and kicking. I saw someone in a neighbor group on social media post about their mother’s friend having an upcoming breast cancer surgery and what should they do and so on. … Continue reading
it’s pinktober so why not body shame a breast cancer survivor, right? ummm, not so fast.
Like clockwork, if you are a woman with a voice who happens to be a breast cancer survivor, and who also brushed past ovarian cancer barely (thank you full hysterectomy in 2014 to remove septating cysts and more that initially … Continue reading
bumps in the road
Life likes to throw us curve balls. It’s fate’s way of making sure we are paying attention. I am a cancer survivor. Which means sometimes things cancer make me feel emotions in technicolor. Recently, one of my childhood friends lost … Continue reading
more life lessons
“Life gets mighty precious when there’s less of it to waste” ― Bonnie Raitt Ain’t that the truth. I have been living with some news about a person I honestly love for a couple of days, and well now is … Continue reading
some men are a wee bit clueless: tales of academia vs. cancer continue
So…unless you have been living under a rock, you know what is irking my Tamoxifen-laden brain this week is the whole deal with the woman named Elizabeth Furey with a rare form of Hodgkin’s who wanted to walk with her … Continue reading
shame on chestnut hill college – no compassion for cancer patient
File under God don’t like ugly: Posted: Thu, May. 3, 2012, 3:00 AM College rigid on cancer patient’s request Ronnie Polaneczky, Daily News Columnist Philadelphia Daily News Maybe not enough administrators at Chestnut Hill College know what it’s like to … Continue reading
out, out damn lump
Greetings from the land of pain management, this is Julie McCoy your cruise director. (Savor the moments people, because rarely am I so mellow.) The news of the Rialto? C’est comme ça: it’s out and the margins were hopefully clean … Continue reading
a couple of clouds on a sunny day
Today is a weird one. First there was the call from my surgeon’s office that they had not yet received my written surgery clearance from my primary care’s office. So I called my primary care and said I don’t want to whine … Continue reading
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