Sound the Alarm-I’m Getting on the Scale!
A few months ago a friend had given me an emergency button which was like a key chain and I could put in or on my purse. If anyone where to accost me, I can
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Detect it, Treat it, Defeat it!
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
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Mercies in Disquise
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
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The Domino Effect
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,
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Make Time for the Tatas
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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Boobs: They Need Your Support!
I have been cancer free for 18 years! Time to celebrate! Eighteen years ago I heard the dreaded words “We found something suspicious on your mammogram”. I always knew it wouldn’t be if but when
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Keeping Abreast of My Blessings
July 14, 2021 marks our 47th wedding anniversary. I started off the day with a mammogram and ultrasound. When I made the appointment I didn’t think much about it being our anniversary – just looking
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Are You Cured or Healed?
In 2003 I was diagnosed with breast cancer, had a lumpectomy, radiation, and told I was cured. But was I healed? What is the difference between being cured and being healed? Healing and curing are
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Slaying the Dragon
Where are you in the battle of the Cancer Dragon? Has it just set its eyes on you leaving you cowering in fear or perhaps wanting to pretend it isn’t there? Perhaps its beating you
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Is The Cure Worse Than The Disease?
I had a friend who was diagnosed with breast cancer but because she was afraid of the healthcare industry, doctors, surgery, and possible treatments chose to go untreated. Nine years later, when she could barely
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Keeping Abreast
Have you ever left the doctor’s office stunned and speechless and not because of the sticker price of the visit? Maybe you didn’t hear them correctly? But you keep hearing the words that have taken
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Remembering What’s On The Line
Yup, sometimes we need a reminder. We find ourselves getting complacent. Mainly because things are chugging along, the potholes are minimal and not too deep, and the road is fairly flat. And then – Your
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