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Ilene Alizah Kaminsky passed away on November 27, 2021, in her home after refusing to succumb to Stage IV metastatic breast cancer (MBC) for seven years. Her extensive knowledge and tenacious self-advocacy were respected and admired by her world-class Stanford oncologist and countless others in the MBC and broader cancer communities, many of whom benefited from the writing and poetry she shared…

OBITUARY https://cancerbus.com/2022/01/11/8110/ — Read on cancerbus.com/2022/01/11/8110/

Ilene Alizah Kaminsky passed away on November 27, 2021, in her home after refusing to succumb to Stage IV metastatic breast cancer (MBC) for seven years. Her extensive knowledge and tenacious self-advocacy were respected and admired by her world-class Stanford oncologist and countless others in the MBC and broader cancer communities, many of whom benefited from the writing and poetry she shared…

OBITUARY Ilene Alizah …

OBITUARY Ilene Alizah Kaminsky passed away on November 27, 2021, in her home after refusing to succumb to Stage IV metastatic breast cancer (MBC) for…OBITUARY Ilene Alizah …

First Annual European Host Gathering: From Zoom Room to Ballroom

When we started offering services through Healing Circles Global in March of 2020, just after the declaration of the global pandemic, we had no idea …First Annual European Host Gathering: From Zoom Room to Ballroom

Reblog from Ice Cream? My Ass – Reblog from Cancer Bus

Ice Cream? My Ass – Cancer Bus — Read on cancerbus.com/2021/11/21/ice-cream-my-ass/

Ice Cream? My Ass

Ice Cream? I recall the cartoon show “Fat Albert” growing up. I dare not speak the name of it’s rape-y creator and eponymous character’s voiceover. Let’s leave it there for now. I do not recall which character had a fear of having his tonsils removed but the sing that week was a catchy, “don’t be scared (of the hospital) you’ll get ice cream!” Spoiler alert – Fat Albert does get ice cream – we…

I’m Getting Very Concerned, Lately

Upon leaving the cemetery: “Then shall the dust return to the earth whence it came, and the spirit shall return unto G-d who gave it. Peace be with you, all whom death has united in this field, the last home of so many departed ones. Peace be with your souls, which have been recalled by the voice of G-d to eternal life. Amen.Ezekiel 7, The Old Testament I’m very concerned. Several important…

Two Part Series on Understanding Palliative Care for Cancer Patients – New York | SHARE Cancer Support

Two Part Series on Understanding Palliative Care for Cancer Patients – New York | SHARE Cancer Support — Read on www.sharecancersupport.org/two-part-series-on-understanding-palliative-care-for-cancer-patients/ @SHAREing on Twitter also find them on Instagram and Facebook where they’ve got plenty of closed group resources. There’s also plenty of support groups and help lines to meet you where you…

You know the kindIn the rubbish binA chain link fenceJailing her insight.One eye doesn’t openThe other remains shutMore bangs were cutToo shortThere’s no more styleFor her hair to grow She’s the one withThe ground in dirt On her cheeks sadly with The peach pinkRosiness of healthSo long ago scrapedAway. You’ve heard the doll Without a cryer.It whines and permits An off key sound Going on too…

Reblog from JBBC: Weekly Round-Up: BCAM and Lessons Learned

T 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 …Weekly Round-Up: BCAM and Lessons Learned There are so many important pieces in this roundup please take some time to read them. May our latest loss to metastatic breast cancer, Liz Johnson who died last week be in peace with no pain in a place I hope I…

“Don’t be a role be a soul”Ram Dass What you fear as you go through your personal cancer experience becomes realized for others perhaps in a similar or very different emotional expression. The experiences as our time here in these diseased bodies unfolds and mine surprises me so much. My emotional state plays out so differently than what I’d ever expected. Do you feel surprised too? As each day…

In the support love kindness and Set out upon the rivers of friendship to search forDistant fires of the hearth of homes The heartbeats of the drums Of rhythmic healing To the same time as yoursAs mine And in the depth of cool waterChanged the rocks as I skimmed by To see you on the shores ahead Waving me into sweet dreams and blue skiesFrom memory of those days when we were smallBefore the River…

Opening my front morning door where the new day’s air washed my face with inspiration, I stop to breathe not fixate. Just let it come inside, welcome, I say aloud.I can no longer blow the words out.A small pilot light under now boiling water steaming the kitchen whistling behind methough not like before the cancer stole my shape.It’s a candle on a cake lit bright as the sun behind those budget…

In memorial: Julia Barnickle’s Lessons From Lockdown and how to find ease and flow even in difficult times

Lessons From Lockdown This isn’t new – yet it’s my contribution to how to find ease and flow even in difficult times. An anthology of women writing about how to deal with the global pandemic of Covid 19. The pandemic that keeps on giving through the politicization of a virus with several vaccines available in first world countries yet with people who believe it is just fine to find themselves on…

Pt. 3 Death, Dying and Mourning: opening the Pandora’s box of grief

119? That’s the number of women who die per day from Metastatic Breast Cancer. About 240 died while I put time into writing and I must ask if part three is necessary. It is. Visiting my mother’s grave for the first time five years after her death and losing another dear friend this year to Metastatic Breast Cancer —First Julia Barnicle back in February and now Lori Burwell —-I find myself amid a…