Hair Growth after Chemo
One of the things that I Googled the most once I was done with chemo was how fast hair grows back. As someone who needs to have a plan...
Post Cancer Paranoia
Cancer has many junctures. The diagnosis, the grieving, the acceptance, the fight mode, the treatment, the surgery, the recovery, just to...
The Diagnosis
I received my cancer diagnosis over the phone the afternoon of June 9, 2015. I had been waiting five long days to hear the results from...
Thank You Notes
I’m a big believer in thank you notes. Not the copied ones with the same generic message on them. Those are not thank you notes; they are...
Someone Else’s Good News
By first grade, I had roughly a dozen dolls. I fed them, read to them, braided their hair, and let whichever one had a bad dream sleep...
Hair Loss
When I talk to people about my sisters, they ask, “The brunette or the redhead?” The baby sister of the trio, I am- or was- the blonde....
Advocate: No One's Going to Do it For You
Two years before I was diagnosed with grade III invasive ductal carcinoma, I found the lump. It was April 2013 and after losing my...
Going Back to Normal Life
When I had planned to go back to work teaching second semester, being done with chemotherapy and surgery, I expected the hardest part...
Origin Story
It's been almost nine and a half months since I was diagnosed with breast cancer. In the early stages, I had so many thoughts going...
