Ah well, another October is here. For many of you, it simply means the start of Fall, apple picking, tailgates (Go Blue), and sweater weather. But for those of us affected by breast cancer in any way, we often recognize October as “Pink-tober”, or what you might call Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Stores will have … Continue reading The Pink Dawning of October
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The Importance of Research
I promise I’m not here to lecture you, and certainly not here to take you on a journey through academia, but I am here to remind everyone just how important research is when it comes to healthcare. To start - research is literally the reason why we have the treatments that we use today. That … Continue reading The Importance of Research
Highest of Highs and Lowest of Lows
Something I’ve started to realize about life, and especially about life post cancer, is that it’s all just a series of highs and lows. We spend the high days on top of the world, and spend the low ones waiting it out until the next high. Over the last week and a half I had … Continue reading Highest of Highs and Lowest of Lows
Learning To Live My Best Life – Lessons in Self Care
So - yesterday was a day. I was really burning the candle at both ends, and by the time I got home, I was having difficulty trying to recognize that there wasn’t actually anything “bad” about my day, but I realized that I’d spent the day taking care of everyone except me. There’s nothing wrong … Continue reading Learning To Live My Best Life – Lessons in Self Care
My Story
Get ready for a doozy my friends… here’s the story of how it all went down.However, my story actually starts about a year and a half before my diagnosis. I moved home to Chicago in August 2016 after finishing physical therapy school and taking an extra year to do a residency, and when I accepted … Continue reading My Story
Affirmations From Cancer 