On Wednesday, November 19th I was wheeled around to various departments as part of my pre-surgery preparation. As part of this, I was seen by mammography, where they placed…

I follow Katie Ford Hall's blog. In a post titled Birds and Rabbits she summarizes a portion an article by Christie Aschwanden on the Case Against Early Detection - where Cancer is categorized…

We had not planned for snow in Welland - but Canada is very unpredictable at this time of year. We borrowed some winter boots and jackets, and ventured out…

Today will be my first post-surgery flight. I didn't leave it too long  ... it has only been a week since surgery. In the surgery, I had a sentinel…

Last night we were rudely awakened at 1:30am by fire alarms. I was surprised at how quickly I jumped up, and threw on a sweat shirt (over my head)…

I told Scott before surgery that the one piece of information I wanted when I woke up was the status of the sentintel node biopsy. I was right -…

to say that we are home from Hawaii safe and sound. We had a great trip! I'm very glad that I spent the last week snorkeling and generally enjoying…

We have fallen into a bit of a morning routine here on Maui. Get up and make a coffee & smoothies, watch the turtles playing in the surf from…

I'm not sure there is actually such a thing as chemo recall. There such a thing as radiation recall - where something prompts your body to remember radiation burns…

When I was first diagnosed and I was in that awkward waiting period - the time when you know you have cancer but you haven't received your pathology so…