I found it interesting the other day, walking with new friends, that they had never heard of Terry Fox. As a Canadian, we are taught about Terry Fox's worldwide…

I was fine this morning. I woke up feeling pretty good, but have since experienced a cognitive decline. I did get out to run a few errands, which involved…

I've been blogging a lot over the last two days, but not really talking about how I'm doing. I haven't really said much about the side effects I'm experiencing…

So today is my second Taxol infusion. We are definitely "regulars" at the infusion center. When one of the computers started its chant, we knew what it was saying,…

I was writing a comment the other day on a friends blog post, about how I blog because I have to. I have a 'muse' which compels me to…

My new sense of energy was unfortunately short lived. Although I must admit, I was able to get a lot of academic work done over the last couple of…

Regularly I see posts on Facebook where people count their blessings. Since my diagnosis, I have counted my blessing regularly. Perhaps the biggest blessing has been this move to…

"But I'm happy to be alive". I read this a lot in breast cancer social media streams. The sense that people are going through all these invasive treatments, and…

It occurs to me that after next weeks infusion I will be half way through chemotherapy. I've finished what for most people is the worst of it, AC chemo,…

One of the challenges with cancer is that you often required to deal with the unknown. My approach to managing fear of the unknown has been preparation. I have…