Old Acquaintance

I’ve been very sulky lately. The weeks leading up to my oncology visit tainted by my runaway imagination took a toll. Without realizing it, I ended up back in cancer’s cloud.  The bleak, obscure fog blinding me to who or what’s around.  All hidden.  I had to squint hard to see any good buried there.

Wasted Days

My oncologist says it’s normal to think every twinge or ache is cancer. Normal. Nancy’s Point recently wrote about finding a new normal after a breast cancer diagnosis. What constitutes a normal life for us?  I’m not sure my life before was normal. Is it normal to lose both a mother and aunt to breast cancer?

Heading Uptown

Thank you to Marie at Journeying Beyond Breast Cancer for inspiring this post.  Marie asked her readers to share their other life.  To share that which filled their days before or after breast cancer.  When days were spent on more “normal” activities.  Life lived, as it should be, not in some altered universe where cancer takes