Blogging my life with breast cancer, from suspicion to diagnosis to treatment. Now livin' the Stage IV Lifestyle! Terminal Cancer can be funny. Just not for very long.
http://www.butdoctorihatepink.com/2019/05/8-year-metsterversary.html
I have had a long and excellent relationship with a company called Healthline. I am not on their payroll, for the record, but we have done projects together. One of them was my being ...
http://www.butdoctorihatepink.com/2018/12/healthline-mentor.html
There are cycles to living with metastatic breast cancer, especially for as long as I have. Of course, first comes fear, sadness, mourning, then gratefulness, appreciation, acceptance, even...
http://www.butdoctorihatepink.com/2018/11/biological-odd-duck.html
Blogging my life with breast cancer, from suspicion to diagnosis to treatment. Now livin' the Stage IV Lifestyle! Terminal Cancer can be funny. Just not for very long.
Over the next month, I've partnered with Breast Cancer Healthline to test and use a new app for breast cancer patients, and I'm excited to share it with you.Why an App?The internet has changed so...
http://www.butdoctorihatepink.com/2018/07/new-app-for-cancer-patients.html
Me and my son at Caltech's Graduation Party I've fallen back into the world of the consumer, living life as others do, unworried about the future, as it should be for a person who has lived...
http://www.butdoctorihatepink.com/2018/07/gifts-they-keep-on-coming.html
My husband said, "Did you realize you hadn't updated your blog since July?" "Wait, what? It can't have been that long!" Indeed it has been. And so I apologize, because I kn...
http://www.butdoctorihatepink.com/2018/02/where-has-time-gone.html
"Hold your breath." My nurses always say that before they stick the needle in, a habit they can't drop. When it's a needle in your arm, they say "little stick." When it's in your chest port...
http://www.butdoctorihatepink.com/2017/07/living-eight-years-on-chemotherapy.html
I confess to having wondered why people hang on to cancer when they have been through treatment and have the ability to put it behind them. This isn't meant to be a mean or insensitive thou...
http://www.butdoctorihatepink.com/2017/04/book-review-cancer-was-not-gift-my.html
One of the privileges I've experienced in writing this blog is hearing from others who have suffered through cancer - either themselves or through a relative. I hear from all stages and all types...
http://www.butdoctorihatepink.com/2017/03/its-not-our-fault.html
Did you have a nice Christmas? Do you even remember Christmas? Seems like forever ago, doesn't it? I was going to blog for the holidays, but my son came home from college without his laptop...
http://www.butdoctorihatepink.com/2017/01/did-you-have-nice-christmas-do-you-even.html
According to movies, according to TV, according to our friends, having cancer means we are supposed to have a "bucket list." On that bucket list is all the things we should have done when ...
http://www.butdoctorihatepink.com/2016/12/my-staycation-box-review.html
My friend Sandy had just died, and I was terribly sad. Sandy was one of the first women I became close to as a metster. Sandy and I had been diagnosed around the same time, or maybe she was...
http://www.butdoctorihatepink.com/2016/10/vickie-young-wen.html
My son and his wife have a very special cat. I have had many cats in my life, but this one has more personality than any feline I've ever seen or owned. I used to suggest they video t...
http://www.butdoctorihatepink.com/2016/10/my-spirit-animal-and-another-kind-of.html
We all know that I have been against Pink October, but it is never going away. So rather than just sweeping it all under the rug, this month I will highlight companies that actually want to...
http://www.butdoctorihatepink.com/2016/10/win-erin-condrin-planner.html
We all know that I have been against Pink October, but it is never going away. So rather than just sweeping it all under the rug, this month I will highlight companies that actually want to...
http://www.butdoctorihatepink.com/2016/10/win-erin-condren-planner.html
I originally wrote this article for Healthline. Due to system maintenance, it is currently unavailable. Because it should be seen during the month of October, I am reposting it on my blog, ...
http://www.butdoctorihatepink.com/2016/10/a-patients-view-on-awareness.html
As October begins, I want to remind everybody to use your intelligence. Not everything that is "pink" is awful but you must use your discernment. Don't just hand over money because so...
http://www.butdoctorihatepink.com/2016/10/pink-october-begins.html
It is incredible how much of your body and life is managed by your colon. I truly didn't know this, up until the fateful day that my colon tried to kill me. It was Thanksgiving a ...
http://www.butdoctorihatepink.com/2016/09/scared-of-my-colon.html
LBBC is beginning a campaign to remind people not to forget those of us who are living with metastatic cancer and are spending some time this week teaching people about mets. They specifica...
http://www.butdoctorihatepink.com/2016/09/writing-to-heal.html
Did you think I was sick or dead? Who could blame you - it has been a long time since I've written. I'm not even sure where I left you in this grand saga of life, death, and daily trivialit...
Did you miss me in the Dr. Katherine Albrecht radio show today?I'm not surprised if you did, since I didn't post the info. I'm been going through a lot these days and am struggling with pos...
http://www.butdoctorihatepink.com/2016/07/dr-katherine-albrecht-radio-show.html
I have been truly blessed. Back when I was first diagnosed, five years ago, June 15, 2011, I set a goal. I wanted to see my youngest, then 14, graduate from high school. &n...
#getannonthewalkingdead I love the zombie apocolypse TV show The Walking Dead. I could get into how richly drawn this world is, how the characters struggle with good/evil in a changed world...
http://www.butdoctorihatepink.com/2016/04/get-ann-on-walking-dead.html
I will be doing a little writing for Cure Magazine's online version. I'd promised to do this long ago but got sick. Now I'm back at it, and not feeling that well again. I remind...