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SurvivingBreastCancer.org my ongoing conversation with Laura Carfang

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/breast-cancer-conversations/id1441928699 This podcast is entitled “why is “how are you?” Such a loaded question?” And it is a very loaded question. The subtext is always “for someone with metastatic breast cancer.” I enjoyed my talks with Laura over a three day nine hour recording and the team did a fabulous job in editing it down to three episodes one still to come.…

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Great Insiders Guide to MBC

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Video: Poetry and Breast Cancer with Surviving Breast Cancer

youtube.com/watch I believe in the therapy of writing – no matter what you write – journal, blog, book, poetry, cards. It’s all helpful to connect with the emotional turmoil of breast cancer – actually any and every cancer. Here’s a special video break from the usual reading programming here. If you’re a reader of my blog, some of these poems might sound familiar. How about putting a face and a…

My Path of Life and Death with Metastatic Breast Cancer

I really like the metaphor of path rather than journey as a descriptive of how we move through our lives with stage IV breast cancer. I am borrowing “path” from Abigail Johnson, blogger and writer at nohalfmeasures.com, attorney, mom, wife. And my friend. We choose the people who walk beside us on the MBC path. The gratitude I feel and the love I have for the people I’ve met along the way…

Six Years of Metastatic Breast Cancer & My Path

The day a one’s dealt a hand of terminal cancer we hold so few of cards in that feared deck. And there’s more hands we’re dealt at the cancer gambling table. The emotions of d-day never leaves any of us the same, does it? Not ourselves, our loved ones, our friends. No one in our orbits. We fall out of life’s great circle, kind of like when poor little Pluto, downgraded from its original life as…

This new year felt awfully late to me. Do you feel like this past year’s already a long time in the past? We hope that every new year, albeit a construct of human needs to mark time of another revolution ‘round the sun, the axis tilted and the earth on its eclipses as far from warmth as we can get having just changed seasons on the winter solstice, we sought to find joy in the chilly night…

A metastatic incurable romantic: am I wasting my precious time writing poems?

If you’re old enough you’ll remember the ABC Wide World of Sports voiceover while Slovenian skier Vinko Bogataj, whose immortalized crash off a ski-jump, came to epitomize defeat. While falls down a mountain off a ski jump over 50 years ago, the recognizable voiceover emotionally says, “the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat.” As with metastatic breast cancer, the imminence of death does…