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christmas thoughts: year ten draws to a close
Ten long but pretty darn good post breast cancer years is drawing to a close. It somehow seems inconceivable for 10 years have gone by so quickly, and then I have been so lucky. And I have been. Friday was … Continue reading
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Tagged breast cancer, breast cancer survivor, breastcancer.org, christmas, friends, love
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merry christmas eve from survivorland
Cancer free. Still. Seven and a half years. Trust me I count my blessings. I am one of the lucky ones. I have friends who live with MBC, otherwise known as Metastatic Breast Cancer. These women are my heroes, my … Continue reading
never go to the oncologist on friday the 13th
(The beautiful Christmas tree is one of the ones at the Ritz Carlton in Philadelphia.) New Rule: Never go to the oncologist on Friday the 13th of anything ever again. No, breast cancer has not returned to pollute my body … Continue reading
my awesome friends
So now I know I was on the right track with my earlier post which has incidentally proven to be shall we say slightly locally controversial…I have yet to understand why my opinions can be like lightning rods. I am … Continue reading
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Tagged breast cancer, christmas, flowers, friends, life, love, new year's
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even the grinch would find this driveltastically rude…..
A post that has nothing to do with breast cancer. It’s just when I find something that is on a “news” site the day after Christmas that I can’t decide if the author was raised in a barn or is just … Continue reading
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Tagged AOL Patch, breast cancer, christmas, clueless, crass, Emily Post, etiquette emergency, life, Lucy Bennett, Miss Manners, Regional Editor, susan, susan g. komen, tacky
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ghosts of christmas past….
Today a year ago, my sister became a widow, when my awesome brother-in-law died after a 3 week bout with peritoneal mesothelioma. Needless to say I was thinking about him today. My brother-in-law was loving and kind. He had an … Continue reading
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Tagged breast cancer, christmas, ghost of christmas past, Laura Ingalls Wilder, life, tamoxifen
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the cookie chronicles
Did I mention I like to bake? So I told you guys about this awesome baking blog I discovered called “Baking Bites”, right? Well between that and Betty Crocker and AllRecipes.com , I found my cookie inspiration and truly regained my baking … Continue reading
five things
No, not a magnum opus, just a small post that was sparked by a woman I know who is going through the breast cancer dance herself in 2011. Her name is Gwen, and she is an amazing woman and a … Continue reading
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Tagged Baking Bites, breast cancer, christmas, five things, grateful, life
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visiting with a neighbor
Today I saw a neighbor I had not seen in close to a year. He is part of the fabric of my neighborhood. He is older and had a fall which really incapcitated him, and has also had prostate cancer. … Continue reading
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Tagged breast cancer, christmas, life, neighbors, prostate cancer
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post breast cancer: keeping the faith and being yourself
One of the things about breast cancer, is it changes who you are irrevocably in a sense, but on the same hand it shouldn’t change who you are. That sounds like a circle, but women who have had breast cancer … Continue reading
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Tagged 2011, breast cancer, christmas, eminent domain, facebook, life, Ludwig's Corner, susan g. komen, The Daily Local
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