BC Becky

Never Thought I'd Want to be a Breast Cancer Survivor

  • breast cancer bootcamp

    At the BCC annual conference yesterday, one of the speakers, Dr. David Spiegel, mentioned that patients have much less anxiety if they take time at the […]

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  • Critical health literacy, statistics, and treatment decisions

    I was asked to choose between ACT chemotherapy and TC chemotherapy. Both were shown to be as effective, so the decision was mine. In making […]

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  • Happiness and hiking, it’s about the journey not the destination #yogamooc

    I watched the #YogaMOOC video on A river of wellbeing and struggled with what she was trying to say. I had my husband listen to the video as well and he agreed. But then I tried to summarize the idea – and it was simple. Happiness is not a destination, it is a journey. I…

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  • Authentic smiling as a coping mechanism

    In doing my PhD research, one of the things I noticed is that I took many pictures of myself smiling. This was done in part because I wanted to make sure my family and friends had lots of pictures of me smile (in the event that I didn’t make it). It was also done as…

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  • Health literacy as a patients job

    An article on Simplifying patient communication can lead to better health outcomes by Eve Becker, crossed my stream today. I was struck by this statement: […]

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  • Goals for YogaMOOC – and breathing after breast cancer surgery

    This week we were challenged with setting our goals for Yoga MOOC – truth be told, I didn’t watch the entire goal video. I’m good at setting small manageable goals as well as longer term stretch goals. My goal for YogaMOOC is to try everything at least once. I’m working my way through the videos,…

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  • YogaMOOC – Yoga and body awareness after breast cancer surgery

    Yesterday I tried to do the full yoga class that launched week 1 of yoga MOOC. I wish that the video began with a statement about being kind to your body while you attempt this practice, but also not feeling like you need to do it all. Fortunately, I have some experience with yoga, so…

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  • Is it critical if you don’t also question the value?

    Thanks to Marie’s weekly round-up, I was lead to a post on Critical Health Literacy by the Breast Cancer Consortium. Initially, I really liked that […]

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  • Are you your disease?

    My research looks at the first 35 weeks of my personal experience with breast cancer as I’ve documented it on this blog. A couple of the themes associated with my dissertation data analysis relate to learning about the disease and negotiating identity. I think that this graph is particularly interesting: When I look at this, I…

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  • Yoga MOOC

    With a little help from my friends, I’ve decided to jump in and try out the Yoga MOOC – which starts next week (this week is week 0). A MOOC is a free open online course (MOOC stands for Massive Open Online Course). You can pay money and get a certificate of completion, but really,…

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