For every independent person, asking for help is difficult.  When faced with a life threatening condition it can add to your already existing feelings of helpLESSNESS.  Continue…

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…

Help is so important when you’re going through cancer, in every area of your life. Help with the kids, with the dog, with cooking, with work. Help with dressing, with clearing drains, with showering, with getting home from chemo. Continue…

The awareness that I live with chronic cancer is something that I wake up to and go to sleep with every night. It is a new way of living in 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.

The question has been asked of you many times. Are you happy? This word is contained in many goals, resolutions, vision states and so much more. Ultimately, what does happiness mean?   Continue…

Happiness is really a decision we make each day.  Am I going to have a good day and work on finding Continue…

Happiness as it relates to cancer is a good report at your doctor’s appointment. It’s no further testing needed. It’s a conclusive ‘all is okay’ answer Continue…

Cancer takes us to place that we can’t come back from. No matter how fiercely we long for our lives and selves from when we were immortal, Continue…

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…

I would change, if I could, my relationships with my daughters. They aren’t part of my life now Continue…

Trust: I can’t think of anything more important in any relationship. In relation to cancer or any health issues trust in your doctor is key. Continue…

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

I think for trust, I need to trust in myself that all will be well; No matter what.  I am not Continue…