NOTE: This blog is proudly written in collaboration with iGoPink.org, an American non-profit organization that supports breast cancer patients and research for October, the month for breast cancer awareness. I officially received my stage 2A diagnosis on October 2016...
[NOTE: The information below came from my oncologist. I simply transcribed and summarized our latest conversation during my consultation.] June 27, 2018 marks my one year of being on remission, which means that all signs of the cancer are gone. The five year period...
Have you ever been so anxiously depressed? I’m not talking about feeling bummed because your sports team didn’t win or the job interview never called or that Tinder date turned out into a disaster. I’m taking about the consistent nagging “I...
Being diagnosed with a life-threatening disease such as breast cancer is already stressful on its own. Plus, chemotherapy can cause nausea and messes up the appetite, sleep, immune system, digestion, weight, hormones, libido and energy levels. And since the Holidays...
ON HORMONE THERAPY… It’s been exactly a week since I got off the Arimidex pills. The Zoladex injection is still probably in my system. Both these meds forced my body to go on clinical menopause by suppressing estrogen and it’s been a helluva’...
