Weekly Round-Up
Today is Cancer Survivor’s Day. The terms cancer survivor and cancer survivorship have different meanings to different people, and how we refer to this growing population of people living with cancer has stirred some controversy.
Terri shares her thoughts on the topic of survivorship and honoring everyone’s experience on this day.
Nancy draws parallels between cancer and the pandemic “new normal” paradigm.
Kristie’s latest post uses the metaphor of a cheetah to describe living life untamed and free.
Delightfully charming story of happy college days and life-long friendships from Connie.
Lovely reminder from Barbara on the importance of reaching out to others to let them know we care.
A hard-hitting post from Jo on the reality of treating metastatic breast cancer. She urges readers to:
“remember, when MBC is played down that it’s “chronic” and “everyone is living longer” that this is an additional nail in our coffin for demanding change and getting the RIGHT investment into MBC. We need better drug access, clinical trials, surgeries and radiotherapies to manage our disease well with a personalized approach.”
Cathy’s latest post discusses the causes of breast cancer.
Thoughtful reflection from Abigail on the pressure to make every day count.
Do you know the difference between a heart attack and a panic attack? Carolyn shares some helpful pointers in her latest post.
Ilene guests on The Talk About Cancer podcast to discuss her writing and poetry and the effect on marriage and friendship on living while dying. See also Ilene’s latest post on travelling the path of life and death with metastatic breast cancer.
Finally this week, I leave you with a writing prompt. Feel free to write about it on your blog, or simply leave a comment below.
Until next week,
Yours with much love always,
Marie xxx
Thank you dear Marie for including Abigail’s oh-so-perfect post here on “the pressure to make every day count”. The expectation of others to be relentlessly “living life to the fullest” is so common – no matter what our medical diagnosis is.
Thanks also for including a link to my panic post… 🙂
Take care, stay safe. . . ♥
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Thanks Carolyn for your great post and also for the support for Abigail’s super post this week.
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Thank you for all of this great content coming out week after week!
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Thank you so much for taking the time to read and comment.
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Marie, aram cara,
All the poetry and prose, truths and metaphors cannot possibly ever express what’s deeply in our hearts and our minds. I certainly try to give a sense of what the “thing” is, but there’s so many things. When you bring all of these voices together you sew a quilt of our joys, sorrows, fears, and even the emotions that can hardly be described in words. The quilt wraps us all together in the warmth of your care and love, for which I’m more than grateful.
❤️Ilene
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Oh Ilene love that imagery of the quilt wrapping us all together – that is so beautiful xxx
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