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Continue reading →: What cancer does to you
Today is my birthday. This birthday is very different from last year’s birthday. Last year I had just had the second chemo infusion on my husband’s birthday and my birthday was one of the dog days. One of the days I wished there was such thing as coma therapy for…
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Continue reading →: When the fighting re-starts
An interesting phenomenon occurs when there is cancer in the family, the push-back and bickering and fighting stops. It just stops. You don’t miss it at first, you don’t miss it at all We have three loving and wonderful daughters. They pick at each other, they fuss and fight and…
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Continue reading →: Adventures in Chemotherapy
After the initial surgery my cancer was typed and my nodes were checked. I had a micromet in a single node. That meant chemotherapy. My initial plan was not to get cancer, second was to only need surgery. The results made me think that maybe I shouldn’t have opinions about…
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Continue reading →: Second Opinions
I didn’t get a second opinion when my doctor gave me the cancer diagnosis. There were a variety of reasons, one was I pretty much knew when I saw the dent in my breast it was going to be cancer. Another was the doctor and my husband seemed to hit…
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Continue reading →: Telling people
You’ve been told you have cancer, now you have to tell people that you have cancer. There is no easy way to do it. When we did it we tried to do it in stages. It is tiring, so stages work much better. First, I told my brother over the…
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Continue reading →: Thanks and Silver Linings
You know the song–you take the good, you take the bad, you take them both and then you have the facts of life. I grew up watching that show. I liked watching it but didn’t really identify with any of the characters, but I would sing that song all the…
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Continue reading →: Recovery, Rehab and PT
Treatment is over, how many days until I am back to normal, the pre-cancer, pre-treatment, pre-runaway train normal? Well, the answer I have gotten from every medical professional is that it is different for everyone. Every person is different, every body is different and every circumstance is different, so it…
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Continue reading →: The power of YES and ANDHow many people in your lives do you know who seem to enjoy saying no. Like for some reason denying you your request is a power play, a complete and total display of their personal power. They often have the off shoot of OR as well, they bargain, I can…
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Continue reading →: Public Display of ProcessingWe were watching the second season of the new Carmen San Diego on Netflix the other night. I was sitting there thinking about how when I was a kid I needed a second 5 1/4 inch drive for my Tandy computer to play ‘Where in the World is Carmen San…
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Continue reading →: Comfort and young entrepreneursEver hold onto a pillow or a stuffed animal looking for something comforting? That soothing feeling? Where you are looking for the feeling that lets your shoulders come down from your ears a little and the tension in your neck relaxes a little. Its because you like hugs, like Olaf…
Hello,
I’m Pamela
Survivor Sherpa 