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Man, oh man, the last couple weeks of radiation sure tested my resilience. That not-so-bad light pink radiation burn from the first 20...

I'm short on time these days, folks. So here's a haiku that sums up the good, the bad, and the is-what-it-is: Radiation's fine. ...

"When you're ready, take a deep breath ... and hold it." I heard those instructions over a loud speaker during my first of 30 radiation...

You know that mild fever I was fighting off late last week? Well, it landed me in urgent care Friday night. Blood tests and a chest X-ray...

A week ago, when I got home from my sixth chemo treatment, Sean cheerfully declared: "You're halfway there!" Without so much as a...

It started falling out in the faintest of wisps — a few hairs at a time, the day after my second chemo treatment. Then this morning, most...

I'm still recovering with a capital R — feeling better than I figured I'd be so soon after surgery. Aside from two plastic tubes looping...

Late last week, I had a few/several good cries as I wrestled with the thought of deciding between a lumpectomy and a mastectomy based on...

Just when I thought I was inches away from the starting line of my treatment, I get another wave of information — including differing...

I wish I had some "phew!" news to share about last week's MRI. Instead, I'm bracing for another round of ultrasounds — this time to get...

As many of you saw on Facebook, that third shoe I was waiting to drop dropped good and hard — except the shoe wasn't a shoe, it was my...

I met with a fantastic Group Health surgeon today. Dr. Gerald Kent spent more than an hour talking me and Sean through my diagnosis,...

Sometimes I think in book titles. The one that came to mind as I embarked on the most challenging chapter in my life: The Good Kind of a...