Not to scare all of you with the title, but for me, this was indeed a scary day. I was heading out the door, all dressed up and ready to go to a networking function, when I received a call from my doctor at the Block Center for Integrative Cancer Treatment. He told me, with [...]
I’ve talked about my friend Ashley Oehler before on these pages. My lovely friend passed away from inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) a few months ago, and I’m always wondering how her family, including her adorable son and daughter, are doing now. Well, I received my answer yesterday thanks to a local newscast, which featured her [...]
With October approaching, I’ve been thinking about what breast cancer organization to support. There are so many! I’ve become disillusioned with Komen, given their questionable marketing relationships and relatively low percentage of funds going to research. I wanted to find an organization that is aggressive about finding a cure. I recently had the opportunity to [...]
Today’s guest post is by Kelly Turner, PhD. Kelly is a researcher, lecturer, and consultant in the field of integrative Oncology. On Wednesday’s post, Kelly shared three of six most common cancer ‘treatments’ she found from interviewing healers and survivors (who healed without traditional medical treatment). Today she shares the other three: Releasing repressed [...]
Through my networking on LinkedIn, I connected with Deanna Attai, MD, a breast surgeon and communications chair for the American Society of Breast Surgeons. She read my recent post about my frustrations with doctors who hand out death sentences and don’t seem to embrace the body-mind-spirit connection. To my delight, Dr. Attai responded that she does “get it” and accepted [...]
My last post generated some very encouraging and interesting comments. Several of you shared your own amazing stories. If you haven’t read them, I suggest you do! One reader, Carol, asked about how to make sense of all of the information out there about alternative treatments. I’m struggling with the same thing in both the complementary [...]
As promised, I am following up with more details from the Annie Appleseed conference. There was so much information; I’m just going to pass along some “golden nuggets” that stood out for me (not the McDonald’s variety). “Chew your food until it’s the consistency of oatmeal and drink minimally with meals.” This was one of the many helpful [...]
My most important takeaway from the Annie Appleseed Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Cancer Therapies Conference boils down to one word: hope. I met so many people living well and long with stage IV disease. There were miracle survivors everywhere I turned. There was a massive amount of information; too much to relate in one post. Presenters [...]
I remember feeling very anxious after completing treatment for what was then, stage II breast cancer. I thought, “Now that I’m off treatments, what do I do now and will it come back?” I saw Beating Cancer With Nutrition by Patrick Quillin at a bookstore and purchased it. I looked through it, thought about making [...]
I’ve shared for some time the challenges and opportunities I’ve found by being more confident about finding the right treatments. Slowly but surely I’m transforming from a “nice patient” who nods her head in agreement, to one of those pain-in-the-ass patients who challenges her doctors. I know this is important, because it’s the story of [...]
