“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.…
DetailsHave you read the story or saw on Ellen, Kellie Pickler with her head shaved in support of her friend with breast cancer? http://www.ellentv.com/episodes/bethenny-frankel-kellie-pickler-an-amazing-dog-rescue-and-sytycds-top-four/ It is a brave, courageous and supportive thing to do, add in she is a celebrity, it is amazing. Her friend is going through chemo and they made a pact to…
DetailsWho are our Fantastic Models? There are friends and then there are friends willing to model sleepwear for your company! I am very fortunate to have friends brave enough to put on pajamas and nightgowns for my photo shoots. The last big shoot we had Mothers and Daughters, and Sisters modeling. I use the photos…
DetailsAn interesting phenomenon is among baby boomers as we die off. Good chance if you are over 50 you have had a co-worker, friend or sibling die not suddenly. If the terminal person has a husband, wife or partner that is managing the dying person’s daily life, this is the person you have to…
DetailsI have officially become an old lady. I had an inkling 2 years ago when I hurt my back doing push-ups and now have had it medically confirmed. The diagnosis is not “Old Lady” or the Latin “Antiques Femma”, but Sciatic. If you remember the ‘Beverly Hillbillies’, Granny suffered from ‘Sciatic’, hence my association with…
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