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Fighting Cancer Cells with Food
Angiogenesis is the process our bodies use to grow and maintain blood vessels. It is also the process that can supply cancer cells with nutrients and oxygen to grow.
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- 02AprRead More
3 Year Cancerversary
My 3 year Cancerversary started off a little rocky, but has a happy ending.
- 09MarRead More
Next Phase : Nutritional Therapy
Homeostasis is a word I've heard of in the past, but when I started my training a few weeks ago to become a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, I started to understand my body even more from the smallest chemical level to my body as a whole system.
- 10OctRead More
Pink Everything
Pink ribbons, pink drinks, pink everything. It’s October, and there’s an influx of PINK. I don’t think it’s a bad thing, it’s great to raise awareness, research funding and most of all to remind women to do their self breast exams, because as you remember – that’s how I...
- 04MarRead More
I. Can. Breathe.
As part of the tradeoff for keeping my boobies (I had a lumpectomy vs mastectomy), I need to have a mammogram or breast MRI every six months. No big deal, I thought.
- 06NovRead More
Another Year Wiser
It’s official, I am in my late 30’s! 38 to be exact. Never in a million years would I have thought 37 would bring so many challenges and life lessons. But I have learned some much along the way
- 25SepRead More
Never a Dull Moment
I guess it’s a good thing that life gets busy and you forget have cancer. Until you get knocked upside your head with very abrupt reminders. Case in point…
- 31AugRead More
Frankenboobs
I can move my arms over my head! Not a big feat for most, but after my breast cancer surgery I was a bit limited in my range of motion. It’s been three weeks since I went in for my surgery – and my personal decision was a double...
- 03JulRead More
Last Chemo + GOOD News
It’s been almost four months since I received the most frightening news of my life – my primary care provider called me while I was at work and told me I had Stage 4 metastatic breast cancer and that I probably wouldn’t receive much treatment because it’s moved beyond...
- 04JunRead More
Mind Matters
Being a cancer survivor is as much a mental game, as a physical. There have been many days that I have felt great and can keep this diagnosis off my mind. And other days where my mind gets the best of me. And on those days I try to...
- 02MayRead More
Chemo Half Way Point
Today was my 3rd chemotherapy infusion – that means I am half way (not counting the 9 months of targeted infusion therapy since that doesn’t come along with the yucky side
- 18AprRead More
My Genes and Other Things
So you know that feeling when you buy a new car and then when you’re driving you notice how many of your cars are on the road that you’ve never really noticed before? In a way, that’s kind of how I feel with having cancer. Although I don’t just...
- 06AprRead More
Hair in the Air
Ok, I’ve got a confession … I think the soundtrack for my treatment journey is from the Trolls movie. Weird, I know. But I’ve listened to it only about a thousand times thanks to Lucy and it’s quite good.
- 29MarRead More
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
If you’re into the cliff notes version of reading (like me) here is a snapshot of my week after my first chemotherapy infusion.
- 22MarRead More
East + West: My Treatment Protocol
Having really focused on my nutrition and gut issues over the past few and learning more about functional medicine and integrative health I wanted to really attack this cancer from all angles: traditional medicine and functional medicine. The problem is, these two camps don’t always agree, leaving me, the patient,...
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