Bernie Siegel advocates being like your pets – enjoying life and living in the moment. Last week I spoke to Bernie Siegel, MD, best-selling author of the classic book, Love, Medicine and Miracles; and most recently, A Book of Miracles—Inspiring True Stories of Healing, Gratitude, and Love. Bernie is incredible; he’s a cross between a wise [...]
Lately I’ve been visiting a wonderful online forum, www.Inspire.com. It has an advanced breast cancer group, and once in while, I’ll share one of my blog posts and participate in discussions with other members. One discussion really caught my attention: asking people who’ve survived stage IV cancer more than 5 years to share . Lisa Quintana, who [...]
I admit that I’m hesitant to share some of the low points of my cancer experience. After all, this site is called Miracle Survivors! I’m supposed to be this shining example of positivity and vitality! Yeah right … The truth of the matter is, I’m human, and this cancer s*&@! sometimes sucks. It’s unfair to you [...]
Bob Kiesendahl and some little athletes at one of his BK Hope Cures fundraisers. Hope all of you had a great Thanksgiving! Mine was great. Actually we celebrated “Thanksmas,” both Thanksgiving and Christmas, with my husband’s family. It was a great time of togetherness, loads of presents and too much yummy food. I threw in the [...]
I had a very interesting interview on a Detroit radio station for a program called God 321. I met the host Danny Hutchins at The Pink Fund Crazy Sexy Luncheon of all places! I am grateful to my friend Molly MacDonald, who leads this wonderful organization, for introducing us. I was apprehensive on being on [...]
Ah Facebook, I just can’t seem to leave it alone! I’m a social person, and most of the time I’m sitting at home on my computer alone without coworkers to chat with or a boss to pile work on me. So I find myself trolling on Facebook to get a peek into people’s lives and thought processes. [...]
I recently had the honor of speaking with Dave deBronkart, widely known as “e-Patient Dave.” Dave is the leading spokesperson for the e-Patient movement–Empowered, Engaged, Equipped, Enabled. A high-tech executive and online community leader for many years, he was diagnosed in 2007 with Stage IV kidney cancer, with median survival 24 weeks. e-Patient Dave is [...]
I’ve noticed that I’ve been feeling some residual anger the past couple of days. I think I was triggered by a conversation I had with a fellow stage IV breast cancer survivor who was told by a doctor it was highly unlikely she would live for 20 years. My own doctor, a wonderful physician, seems [...]
Today I was reading a post from Uneasy Pink, my friend Katie Ford Hall’s blog, about statistics and stage IV cancer. She shared a very interesting article in the New York Times about living with metastatic cancer. I applaud Katie for asking her readers to embrace the metastatic breast cancer community and encourage research funding for [...]
I just received a very nice message from a cancer researcher in NYC about my post about statistics I feel good to find another person in the medical field, who like my oncologist I see, believes statistics aren’t all they’re cracked up to be. This is another example of people or comments coming into my [...]
