What’s Wrong With Pink?

“If we continue making progress at this current rate, it will take more than five hundred years to end breast cancer.” — Fran Visco, President of the National Breast Cancer Coalition Searching For Answers I know this sweetheart of a nurse practitioner named Dierdre who works for the local gastroenterologists — the GI guys, a.k.a. […]

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Posted in: Attitude, Diagnosis, Recurrence, Screening, Fighting the Pink Peril, Health & Healthcare, Making A Difference, Research, Survivorship by Kathi 5 Comments BRCA, breast cancer, Cancer, genetic testing, healthcare, ovarian cancer, prostate cancer, research, responsibility, survivorship, uterine cancer

Off My Chest

WARNING: The truth shall make you hurl — possibly. You wouldn’t think I’d have trouble dashing off blog posts during Pinktober, would you? But I have. It’s the overwhelming surfeit of potential topics that has had me stymied. There is just so much to say, I don’t know where to begin. I finally decided to […]

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Posted in: Diagnosis, Recurrence, Screening, Health & Healthcare, Nitty Gritty, Radiation, Surgery & Reconstruction by Kathi 10 Comments breast surgery, healthcare, lumpectomy, mammography, radiation, survivorship, vulnerability

My Awareness Wish List

I would have written a blog post a few weeks ago, at the beginning of October, but I was just too tired from work. Since then, I’ve wanted several times to write, but I was overwhelmed by a surfeit of potential topics. Every time I thought I knew what I’d focus on, some fresh muck […]

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Posted in: Attitude, Diagnosis, Recurrence, Screening, Fighting the Pink Peril, Health & Healthcare by Kathi 4 Comments Awareness, breast cancer, cognitive impairment, fatigue, healthcare, mammography, music, survivorship