Tag: healing
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Welcome to the Club
This month marked my official induction into the Survivorship Program. I know that phrase should be encouraging, but I didn’t ask for this membership. Never downloaded the app, never registered my email, yet here I am. In the club. This brought so many emotions. I had to reach out to a few of my breast…
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Before and After
Today was my oncology consult. My Oncotype DX score returned. For those who may have missed the earlier post on this. your tumor is typically sent on for additional genetic testing to better understand the tumor behavior. This is the standard for those under 50 with hormone receptor positive, HER- early stage breast cancer that…
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The Resurrection
Many of us spent this past weekend celebrating the Easter holiday with family and friends. This Easter was a lot different for me in many ways. The start of 2025 was not the kindest to me. For a number of reasons I won’t disclose here, I was in a very dark place prior to my…
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Healing All Wounds
I am three days post op today and I have to say that there is a degree of healing that happens beyond the physical incisions. Yesterday I got my first shower and removed my bandages for the first time. My incisions are internally sutured, glued shut, and I was then wrapped in a saran wrap…
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Back to the Books
I left work for the last day before surgery last week. I sent out a reminder to my fellow chiefs to remind them I would be out next week and that I would keep my work cell phone nearby if anything urgent arose. I heard complete crickets. It’s incredible how much of our entire self…
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The Mental Detox
“Mind over matter”. Many of us say this phrase when giving advice to others, but how many of us actually practice it. I am delayed in this most recent post because to be completely honest, I hit a wall the past day or two. The number of things that you process physically and mentally in…
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The Circle
As much as I hate this, things like cancer or other traumatic things bring people together. This is good yet also bad in some ways. I would always hope that it wouldn’t take things like these to bring people together, but it is in these moments you really do assess those you allow in your…