As usual, the media is always looking for story “hooks” for the holidays. Holiday stress is one of them. I was watching the TV show, The Doctors, yesterday, and one of their topics was how stress breaks down the body’s immune system. They didn’t mention cancer, but you can connect the dots. We all have [...]
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 [...]
Cancer survivors/thrivers are like everyone else except for one thing: for many of us, especially those of us with advanced cancer, our vision of the future has been disrupted by a premature taste of our mortality. One of the things I mentioned when I wrote about our visit to the Block Center was our meeting with [...]
Last week, I traveled to the Chicago area to the Block Center for Integrative Cancer Care. After reading Keith Block’s book, Life Over Cancer, and recommending The Block Center to several people, I decided I should go there for myself! I don’t know why I waited so long! The beautiful center recently relocated to Skokie, [...]
Hi everyone! I spent the morning at University Hospital getting scanned and meeting with my wonderful radiologist Dr. Ristagno and his assistant Carmen. My appointment was the one-month follow-up of my Selective Internal Radiation Therapy (SIRT) procedure. It was a nice surprise that I only had to drink water; not that awful contrast solution that [...]
As I mentioned before, I am looking through the final proof of From Incurable to Incredible. It’s amazing how many mistakes we are catching! Its par for the course when editing that you can find things after you haven’t looked at copy for a while. Then you can look at it with a fresh eye. A [...]
I’m a fan of the show, Brothers and Sisters on ABC, but was less than thrilled when one of its characters, Kitty (AKA Calista Flockhart), found out she had cancer. “OK,” I thought, “Here comes the head-in-the-toilet vomiting scenes and other stereotypical and dated cancer images you see all the time.” The story line did start that [...]
