The overwhelming amount of love and support that started coming my way was incredible. I never realized I knew so many people and amazing ones at that. It was very difficult for me to accept help in the beginning. I wanted to keep doing everything for myself […]

I was very lucky to have so many prayers coming my way during treatment and even still today. I had many religious icons, oils and holy waters to keep me safe. I know religion isn’t for everyone but whatever you believe in I do know you have to think that the power of believing in […]

Because chemo compromises your immune system I had blood work done every week. Each week they would check a long list of things in my blood to make sure everything looked good, especially my RBC and WBC counts. Dr. Tolaney advised me of a few things I didn’t even think about during chemo. Everything she […]

When you completely lose all your hair, especially a female, it is very noticeable. I remember getting many stares from people. Sometimes they were sympathy stares as you could tell by their eyes and awkward smile they were thinking, oh that poor girl with cancer. You would also get the curious stares as if they […]

I felt extremely fortunate my body tolerated Taxol /Herceptin chemo so well. I took every piece of advice my doctor gave me. She said if you can keep up with exercise then keep on running. So I did, I went for runs throughout my treatment. I would do a 5K here and there and when […]

I did wear my wig from time to time but my treatments were right in the middle of the summer and it was a very HOT summer. Wearing a wig in the summer is like wearing a winter hat. So imagine wearing that winter hat around when its 95 degrees outside! (A hint if you […]