The other day my next-door neighbor asked if I saw the deer across the street. No I did not. We have lived in the same home for 23 years and I have never seen deer. Oddly another neighbor a block away said that the deer keep eating her roses and knocking over her birdbath. Deer?…
Details1.TIMING IS EVERYTHING. GETTING ALL THE FOOD WARM TO THE TABLE AT THE SAME TIME IS YOUR GOAL! 2. WRITE DOWN YOUR MENU AND LOOK AT IT OFTEN. Write it on your arm and post a copy in the kitchen. EVEN Seasoned cooks will forget the salad or cranberry sauce in the refrigerator or Burn…
DetailsA friend of mine recently filed for divorce. Her reasons I have heard before and I expect many women in their 40’s and up have heard the same story. It is not scandalizing like another woman or man. It is not a new awakening to a life being held back by a spouse. It is…
DetailsThis is part five and my final week of blogging about breast cancer for the month of October. This week the subject is alternative care during treatments and after your treatments have ended. As mentioned in part four about help for breast cancer survivors, your oncologist may recommend alternative care. You of course may have…
Details“You don’t know what precinct you are in?” said with distain and a shaking head as the older woman looked up my name on her roster. I was trying to vote and did not bring my precinct card with me and the grade school housed several precinct-voting areas. This was sometime in the early 1980’s…
DetailsThis is part four of my weekly blogs about breast cancer for the month of October. In my previous blogs I spoke of awareness, preparedness and holly crap breast cancer happens. This week I want to talk about HELP. All breast cancer patients and survivors need help. The disease can truly be mind fogging and…
DetailsThis is part three of my weekly blogs about breast cancer during the month of October. So what happens if you or your sister, mother, partner, bff or daughter is diagnosed with breast cancer? A lot happens at once. After the diagnosis, this is the most confusing yet important time of the whole treatment period.…
DetailsThis is part two of my blogs about breast cancer for the month of October. This week I ask the ridiculous question about being prepared for a potentially life threatening or life altering diagnosis. I say it is a ridiculous question because are we ever prepared for such bad news? How can anyone be prepared…
DetailsThis is the first in a 5 part weekly blog about breast cancer for the month of October. This year I am a 10-year breast cancer survivor. I am hopefully looking forward to another 10 years of survivorship, but I want to look back too. I was familiar with breast cancer before I was diagnosed.…
Details10 years ago I was diagnosed with invasive breast cancer. I was 48 and had a clean mammogram the year before. I was healthy, fit, working and busy. My life changed at a glance of a mammogram. I had a textbook perfect mammogram showing breast cancer. The breast cancer treatments threw me into menopause.…
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