At some point, I hope that when I am blogging here, I'm not having to tell you about yet another new side effect of breast cancer treatment. It seems,…
A picture is worth 1000 words ... or so they say. I recently participated in an interview for an academic study on care and vulnerability among academics. When asked…
I'm healing. I'm also starting to think of the surgery last Tuesday as my last surgery - the last surgery as part of my active treatment for breast cancer. Arguably,…
At the hospital yesterday, the nurse practitioner who saw me during my hospital stay back in December remembered that I am sometimes called Becky. When she called me Becky…
First of all, for those out there following along, my surgery went well. I'm writing this now because I'm not ready to sleep yet and it is just slightly…
When I told one of my colleagues at the University of Ottawa that I was moving to Silicon Valley in California, she comment that she thought it was "Silicone…
Today's ride was rather significant for me. For the first time since treatment, I made the ride up Mount Hamilton from the Fire Station. The last time I did…
Over the last week I've been amazed at how quickly my wounds are healing. For so long the progress has been slow. Last Thursday I was diagnosed with a…
