Recuperating (Or Being A Bad Patient) (article)

I am recuperating from my surgery. It has been 8 days now. I am starting to get to the annoyed stage. The seriously annoyed stage. First of ...

The Importance of Learning About Your Health (article)

Can you answer these three questions from the Brief Health Literacy Screen (BHLS):  How confident are you in filling out medical forms on yo...

Tumor Size Doesn't Matter (article)

All cancer tumors start small and end up bigger. This is logic that is clear as day.  Tumors don't show up 3 cm across out of nowhere. A...

The Road Through Chemo (article)

Everyone's road through chemotherapy is a bit unique. We all face our demons of nausea, fatigue, hair loss, and emotional ups and downs ...

Trapped At Home (article)

I haven't been so trapped at home since chemo. Then I was too sick to care that I spent my life inside watching TV, hanging out with the...

New Research Which Could Have More Thought (article)

There is always more research going on - especially cancer research. Especially breast cancer research. I swear sometimes the world is full ...

I Don't Do Pink Things Except.... (article)

I don't do pink things. I detest things where if you had breast cancer you are supposed to cover yourself in pink, including a few boas,...

Number Nine (article)

Surgery number nine was yesterday. I thought the surgeon was going to clean out my knee arthroscopically so it would no longer catch and loc...

Reminder What Not To Say To Breast Cancer People (article)

As part of the universal pinkification of October, Good Housekeeping magazine has a section on breast cancer (who knew?). But one thing they...

What we choose to name a disease matters (article)

A couple of years ago around this time, I was dealing with a series of minor health problems. I developed a sinus infection that took severa...