May 3rd was my last dose of Adriamycin (the “red devil”) chemotherapy and marked the alleged halfway point of my chemo treatments. At that point, my surgeon ordered more imagining to check in on how the chemotherapy was impacting my two cancer spots – the tumor and the calcifications. So, on May 10th, I wentContinue reading “Mammograms, Protocols, and Radiation: Oh My!”
Category Archives: cancer
What My Cancer Diagnosis Taught Me About Leadership
There’s no manual for how to have cancer and run a business – much less any significant health or life issue. I’ve had my fair share of them. Prior to my cancer diagnosis, I was running at lightening speed in 18 different directions. I was leading a business I had recently acquired, running a sideContinue reading “What My Cancer Diagnosis Taught Me About Leadership”
“Plastics”
Warning: I talk openly and honestly about my consultation for reconstruction post-mastectomy (read: boob job). I find the process and information fascinating and want to share it with you all, however, conversations about my boobs might make you uncomfortable. You’ve been warned. After the meeting with my breast surgeon (the one doing the mastectomy), IContinue reading ““Plastics””
The Big Fuss About Hair
Let me start by saying this: It’s taken me most of my life to get good at doing my own hair. The irony that my hair is now mostly gone and what remains is rapidly falling out like a rainstorm, is not lost on me. When I was diagnosed with cancer, I lived in theContinue reading “The Big Fuss About Hair”
28 Days Ago.
Twenty-eight days ago, I walked into the breast diagnostic center of the hospital for what I thought would be a mammogram, an ultrasound, and then draining what my OBGYN and I both believed to be a cyst in the outer-lower quadrant of my right breast. I remember calling a friend on my way to theContinue reading “28 Days Ago.”
