MindBodySoul

When I learned that I have to do chemo a few months ago, every oncologist, every person I talked to told me "You'll loose your hair, you know that right?" I had long hair as long as I can remember. Beautiful hair, always got compliments on my hair kind of hair... So starting from the first session of chemo, I waited, I worried. When I woke up in the middle of the night, I touched my hair, pulled a bit to see if it started to fall out... 4 weeks passed. Nothing... I guess my h

All I can think about the last few days is "moms", other moms, all moms going thru this, cancer or any other sickness... As moms we get used to taking care of others. Our kids, our family becomes our lives. What happens when this dynamic changes and when we are sick? Who takes care of us? Do we even remember how to take care of ourselves? Take a moment to ourselves? How many times a day we hear the word "mommy", "mama", "mom"? Now I know, now I try to remember to stop and say

Watching “Truth about Cancer” wasn’t the best idea the night before your chemo I guess! First episode was all about chemotherapy, how toxic it is, how it causes recurrence of cancer!! And we were like - what the heck? Are we doing the right thing? And who actually knows what’s right or wrong? I made my research for the last month, get opinions from 6 different oncologists and made my decision. I am not going to watch this and I’ll move forward with my decision. TH its is. No

Okay, so I decided on my surgeon for my mastectomy, my plastic surgeon for my reconstructive surgery and scheduled it. November 9th will be the nipple delay surgery... This is something my surgeon offered and made sense to me. During this procedure, they will remove a small amount of tissue from beneath the nipple to ensure that it isn't malignant so we will know if they can do nipple sparing mastectomy, meaning they can use my own nipples. They will also remove 2 lymph nodes