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“My mother passed away 15 years ago, of CANCER, nothing else, of the bone. It was a long painful fight for her. It was especially hard to tell my dad when I was diagnosed with breast cancer last year, as I did not want him to feel he was going thru it all again. Due […]
Posted at: May 17th, 2008 - 7:29 am - Number of Comments » 0
“Yes, many of us have lost loved ones to cancer. And when we ourselves have it, those deaths are a flash of our own mortality from the disease. My first grandchild was born yesterday. Will I see her grow up to experience life? I have decided that my path through cancer has helped me to […]
Posted at: May 9th, 2008 - 6:15 am - Number of Comments » 0
Between our first inhale at birth and our last exhale at death, some part of us is always dying… When I was a child and Dad’s military career took most of my immediate family (excluding my oldest brother and sister, Cindy) from Canada to Europe, a world died. (Those who leave their native land to […]
Posted at: April 30th, 2008 - 5:51 am - Number of Comments » 0
Through my struggle with the loss of my sister, Cindy, I learned so much about myself… I became more aware of unhealthy, negative thoughts that I disliked within myself. I used to believe that I was most often right about my viewpoints—now I truly understand that right VS wrong are subjective. And I used to […]
Posted at: April 16th, 2008 - 5:28 am - Number of Comments » 0