This summer I decided to enroll in a certification program for the Prepare for Surgery, Heal Faster process. Peggy Huddleston wrote the book that I used during my surgery and found to be extremely helpful in speeding my healing, dealing with the intense anxiety I was experiencing and helping me overall with a more [...]
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Dear Friends,
A year has now past since I was first diagnosed with breast cancer and I am thrilled to write that my life is full with abundant health, vibrant and engaging activity and incredible gratitude. I am cancer free and loving it.
Several of you have called with concern because I obviously have not kept up [...]
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Just moments ago a magnificent, powerful and scary storm swept through our neighborhood. The power is out and it is early morning. I just lit several candles to make my way around our apartment. Awakening to this I realize just how unequipped I am with no radio or identified safe space to [...]
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It’s Monday, Feb 18th and Tony and I just got back from Boulder. I have been experiencing a gnawing ache inside of me and it seems to be attempting to get a message to my head. Since my diagnosis, surgeries and the holidays, I have felt a surge to do something that is meaningful, powerful [...]
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Tony and I want to share with you a process that our entire family (10 of us including a 9 year old) experienced while up at Big Canoe for a week after Christmas. Every year on the 31st we get busy. Usually Tony and one or two others, (this year my brother-in-law, [...]
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Happy Belated New Year to all of you. Although you have not heard from us, we have been busy. In another post I will share with you the meaningful New Year’s process my family shared together. It is definitely formulating our actions in this year and serving as a guidepost for [...]
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Its the day before Christmas eve and Teresa and I are spending the day cooking and wraping gifts! What a wonderful pleasure it is to be home, family in town, snow on the ground and perspective on an incredible year. Amazing travel, wonderful friends, financial abundance, and health. It is now clear to me/us, how [...]
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As I wrote earlier, I have been given the word that I can forgo the difficult chemo treatments that so many others with cancer have to endure. If you are interested, read this article which describes the test I had called an oncotype: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22248036/from/ET/. This test provided my oncologist with information [...]
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Today I walked with a friend I have known for many years, Chris. Chris buried her son the very same day my step-father died and I had my first of four breast biopsies. I do believe loosing a child is certainly one of, if not the most, difficult thing a person [...]
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Some presents come wrapped in fancy paper and in small expensive boxes (I love these, don’t you?) but I believe I got the best gift of all….my oncologist saying all my tests are favorable and there is no way I need chemo!!!!! She just wants to put me on a little daily [...]
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