The High Co$t of Cancer

I have been trying to piece together a CAD$ price tag on my cancer treatment since my surgery.  I’ve asked my surgeon, Dr. X,  what my diagnosis and surgery cost.  He threw some numbers around – $1k for the OR for an hour, triple that for the attending staff, the nuclear dyes – but he […]

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Meet Sophie!

Hi everyone!  This is Sophie … if you are following along on my Pink Dot Detour with Triple Negative Breast Cancer, you know that I lost all my hair 13 days after my first chemo infusion. Each wig – I currently have five with two more in the works – brings out different characteristics of my […]

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Pink Dot Detour

Really, this detour started about six months ago.  Or maybe a year or two ago. Or seven.  Who the hell knows?  Maybe I was tapped on the breast right at the beginning.  We will never know.  I go back and forth in my mind wondering how … when … why.  Can I take the liberty […]

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Heart of Stone

Had lunch with a long time girlfriend today – her boy and mine grew up together playing baseball.  She and I are both single Moms doing our very best to raise our boys (for the most part) alone. The boys were too caught up in their conversation to notice us, so our topics dove into […]

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Cleansing the mind, body & soul

If you have been with me on this journey for more than a few years, you know that I usually do a “cleanse” in January.  Not January 1st – when all the delicious leftovers are still in the fridge and the Christmas candy and baking is still hanging around.  No, I usually pick the first […]

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One Little Word

Grateful (that 2016 is done!). Over ten years ago, Ali Edwards started a tradition of choosing one little word to lean into and live with for the coming year.  One Little Word has been a beautiful spark which enriches my life daily, and provides an interesting backwards glance at years gone by.  I just have […]

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