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Adversity is like a strong wind

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Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are. ~ Arthur Golden

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Friday Round-Up

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Time for this week’s round-up of the best of the blog posts which I’ve read over the past week. These are the posts that have moved me, taught me something, inspired me, and which… Continue reading →

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Poetry Friday

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Rememberance And you wait, keep waiting for that one thing which would infinitely enrich your life: the powerful, uniquely uncommon, the awakening of dormant stones, depths that would reveal you to yourself. In… Continue reading →

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Latest research on treatment of DCIS

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Women with the most common type of non-invasive breast cancer known as ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) are significantly less likely to develop invasive disease if they are given radiotherapy after surgery, and the effect… Continue reading →

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How to Build Resilience – Dedicated to the Memory of Elizabeth Edwards

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   To mark World Mental Health Week, back in October,  I asked some of my favourite bloggers to write a guest post on the theme of Building Resilience.  I want to repost one of… Continue reading →

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Are we too biased toward prophylactic mastectomy?

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I have no idea what it must be like to have to make the decision to undergo a prophylactic mastectomy, the name given to the  surgery that may be done to remove one… Continue reading →

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Elizabeth Edwards halts cancer treatment

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UPDATE. Since this posting, we have learned of the sad news of the death of Elizabeth Edwards. The news started trickling through my Twitter time-line late last night – ( late in terms of… Continue reading →

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Meat Free Monday

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I love how things work out in the Twitterverse! Last Thursday my friend Debbie tweeted about this dish she had just made and how scrumptious it tasted. She did this just as I… Continue reading →

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Is happiness contagious?

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I was reading some research last week which suggests that emotional states can be transferred directly from one individual to another by “emotional contagion”. People can “catch” emotional states they observe in others. This… Continue reading →

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Jennifer and Sally are Ab Fab

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Looking at the pictures in the newspaper this week of comedienne and actress, Jennifer Saunders, as she attended the ballet in London, those of us who have gone through chemo, will recognise her gorgeous… Continue reading →