by Lauren | Jan 31, 2019 | Breast Cancer, Grief, grief and self-care, loss of a spouse, widows
Aaargh- what a horrible word: widow, but I guess it is more socially acceptable that calling oneself a member of the dead husband (partner/ spouse) club. Since Eric died, there have been a few friends and acquaintances who have become a member of this club that no one...
by Lauren | Oct 28, 2018 | Breast Cancer
Today I am missing Eric terribly. It is a day that I expected five years ago to be celebrating with him. Today is the fifth anniversary of my mastectomy and I view it as the “five years clean” day. It is extremely hard to celebrate birthdays and holidays without him....
by Lauren | Oct 25, 2018 | Breast Cancer, children and cancer, loss of a spouse
On this day five years ago I was diagnosed with breast cancer. Today five years ago I thought I was going to die a horrible death, that I would whither away as my father had done from the brutal disease too many succumb to far too soon. Five years ago I thought I was...
by Lauren | Aug 1, 2018 | Breast Cancer, Detection
Everyone has their own way of dealing with their diagnosis and their life thereafter. Here are just a few of the ways I tried to cope: As soon as it was confirmed that the warm and fuzzy feeling on my left boob was cancer I began to read ferociously and avidly. But...
by Lauren | Jul 1, 2018 | Breast Cancer, Detection
Firstly, there may not be a lump. One Sunday in October 2013 I was lying reading and my left breast suddenly felt uncomfortably warm – like after you have been in the sun for too long. There were no other symptoms and the feeling went away after an hour. I thought...
I’m a middle aged (ugh!), extremely privileged mom to one fourteen year old daughter and a rather large, but very slobby brown dog, which I inherited (I’m NOT a dog person – much prefer cats, to which I am terribly allergic).