Today I pause and reflect. It is December 6. It is the 26th anniversary of the Polytechnique massacre - when 14 women were killed in an engineering school in Montreal,…
I am proud to say that I successfully managed a blog post per day for the month of November. Unlike NaNoWriMo, the requirement wasn't for a specific number of words.…
It occurs to me that there is a lot of dialogue about how approximately 20-30% of early stage breast cancers progress to metastatic disease. I ran into a bit…
Back at Medicine X Ed, one of the speakers mentioned an online journal that was written and run by medical students, called In-Training. I tweeted out asking if they…
The lymphedema doctor said that I needed to wear a level 2 compression garment on my left arm and hand until the swelling goes away - anytime that I'm…
I don't often follow celebrity experiences with breast cancer. For the most part, they annoy me. They try too much to simplify the experience into a single message -…