Tag Archive for "Breast Cancer" - Surviving Medical Mayhem

Detect it, Treat it, Defeat it!

Loretta Schoen 10th October 2025

In my grandmother’s day, my aunt who was her caregiver, had to learn how to sterilize, fill the needles and inject my grandmother with morphine for pain. Why? Because getting nursing care in the home

Mercies in Disquise

Loretta Schoen 10th March 2024 4 comments

The year 2003 felt more like a hurricane that would never end rather than a storm that would eventually lose steam and drift off. It started with a routine mammogram in March that suddenly was

The Domino Effect

Loretta Schoen 27th January 2023 01 comment

I felt awful. No energy, short of breath but the worse was intermittently feeling faint – almost like someone was playing with a light switch. On-off, on-off: feeling fine then seconds of not feeling fine,

Make Time for the Tatas

Loretta Schoen 14th October 2022

I don’t know about you but even as a retired person my calendar is chucked full. My son-in-love says we are the busiest retired people he knows. Of course, with Thad and I we seem

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Tag: Breast Cancer

Detect it, Treat it, Defeat it!

Mercies in Disquise

The Domino Effect

Make Time for the Tatas