So much help is required following a cancer diagnosis.  The help of our doctors, our nurses, our families, our friends.  So often the fight goes on and on.  People have their own lives.  It is difficult to always “be there” Continue…

Oh what I would give to have been aware! Had I only been aware of this thing called ovarian cancer and its symptoms I have no doubt that I Continue…

Cancer has taken my happiness away and replaced it with pain and sorrow. I have never been a fighter and now I am in the fight of my life. It makes me sad that all my efforts go toward a war within my body. It makes me sad that I am not who I was, nor will I ever be. It makes me sad that my hair has never grown back. It makes me sad that I am 80 pounds soaking wet. It makes me sad to get treatments that are really just a ‘try and see.’  A cure would make me happy. To be healthy again would make me happy. I took my good health for granted. Nobody should. It is a gift and once it is gone….well, tell me about being happy then.

As there is no cure for cancer, so much has to be left to trust.  Trust in our doctors who recommend treatment.  Trust in the Continue…

My diagnosis changed me into a different person.  I went from A to Z in a New York minute.  Continue…

I have never thought myself to be a physically strong person. Even now less so. My surgery and chemo have taken their toll Continue…

I would never consider cancer to be a gift.  It is not a gift but a scourge.  That being said, the response to my diagnosis has been Continue…

A wish is a dream your heart makes. My heart’s desire would be for the Dragon known as cancer to be slain. No more surgery. No more chemo. No more radiation. No more loss of self. No more Continue…