I came across an uplifting story recently about an organization with the wonderful name, Hope in Bloom, a nonprofit that plants gardens for breast-cancer patients. Linda (Bosse) Charron is getting a reminder of how she won her fight against breast cancer right outside her home. In 2007, the lifelong Easton resident was enjoying her young [...]
Archive for October, 2009
Hope in Bloom
Posted in Holistic, Inspiration, tagged breast cancer, chemotherapy, gardening, Hope in Bloom on October 31, 2009 | 9 Comments »
Poetry Friday
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged poetry friday on October 30, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Earlier in the week, I reviewed Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg’s cancer memoir, The Sky Begins At Your Feet. Caryn’s latest blog post features a poem which is very beautiful and the last two lines of which I have been repeating to myself for the past few days. It is written by N. Scott Momaday, a Native American [...]
New aid to breast reconstruction decision making
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged breast cancer, Breast Reconstruction, Dr Bernard Lee on October 29, 2009 | 5 Comments »
A computer-based decision-making aid may make it possible for more women to have breast reconstruction after surgical treatment for cancer. The tool has helped women play a larger role in decision-making, according to results from a new study reported at the 2009 Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons. Women who used the computer-based [...]
The Sky Begins at Your Feet
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cancer memoir, Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, poet laureate of Kansas, The Sky Begins At Your Feet on October 27, 2009 | 7 Comments »
The Sky Begins At Your Feet: A Memoir on Cancer, Community and Coming Home to the Body, is the title of a recently published book by Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, poet laureate of Kansas. Caryn, as many of us decide to do during treatment, kept a journal of her experiences (out of which this memoir was born), [...]
Join us on Facebook
Posted in Uncategorized on October 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Another way to connect with others journeying on the path beyond breast cancer, is to join our online support community on Facebook. But, you don’t have to have had experience of breast cancer, or any type of cancer to join – just experience of life! Cancer happens to have been my wake up call and catalyst [...]
Meat Free Monday
Posted in Healthy Recipes, tagged complex carbohydrates, pumpkin recipe, puy lentils, squash recipe, winter squash on October 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
You can’t have failed to notice that thick-skinned winter squash are in season now. The shops are full of bright orange pumpkins. Along with butternut squash, it is a versatile vegetable that can be sautéed, mashed or used in soups and curries. Winter squash is a good source of complex carbohydrates and fibre. It is an excellent source of [...]
Melissa Etheridge promotes breast cancer awareness
Posted in Breast cancer awareness, patient empowerment, Survivorship, tagged breast cancer survivor, diagnosed with breast cancer, Melissa Etheridge on October 24, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Singer, Melissa Etheridge, who was diagnosed with breast cancer five years ago, is promoting a month-long breast cancer awareness program at the Hard Rock Cafe. Melissa maintains that she is healthier now than she ever was before cancer, being more aware of what it means to make healthy diet and lifestyle choices. Cancer, she says, [...]
Friday Poetry
Posted in Inspiration, tagged The Peace of Wild Things, Wendell Berry on October 23, 2009 | 6 Comments »
The Peace of Wild Things When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron [...]
Cancer drug case study: Tyverb
Posted in Medical Update, tagged breast cancer, cancer recurrence, cancer remission, Capecitabin, chemotherapy, her2, herceptin, Lapatinib, Mastectomy, radiotherapy, Tyverb on October 22, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Jo Waters, 55, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2002. She had a mastectomy, chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Then she had six cycles of Herceptin. It appeared to work. “I had two years of remission. ” she said. But then the cancer came back in the sternum and the lymph nodes.” Another year of chemotherapy and [...]
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