Forget breast cancer awareness, our culture and medical system needs to address weight stigma, and all the harm it does to people in bodies of all sizes.
Category: Metastatic Breast Cancer – MBC
Medicine for the Wealthy
This is an expansion of my reply to a doctor’s office about why I won’t become a “member.” While I appreciate that the concierge model is an attractive business model for doctors, it is also an extremely effective way to isolate a medical practice to the wealthy, privileged, (and probably white.) Personally, I carry a…
I Burst Into Tears When the Mop Fell Over for the Third Time
Life with a chronic illness sucks some days. I burst into tears when the mop fell over for the third time. I haven’t even started mopping yet. I could walk to the other side of the room and lean it more securely, but I’m already winded and hurting from getting it and the bucket out…
“Obesity” is Often Cited as a “Cause” for Cancer, that’s a lazy correlation.
Obesity is often cited as a “cause” cause of cancer. That’s a lazy correlation. Waht about Medical fat bias, diet culture, shame, judgement, and bullying of fat bodies, decades fo failed diets and weight cycling, malnutrition and severe food restrictions, eating disorders, stress …
Intentional Language
Dear Ones, I am a loving, thriving, healthy and joyful individual. I plan on continuing in that place even as I am having an experience that many people assign different adjectives to. So I ask you please, leave the language of battles, fighting, suffering, beating and surviving out of the conversation with me, and about…
The Ringing of the Bell
I’m sitting in a small waiting room at the local hospital infusion center with a dozen other people on a Friday afternoon. Behind me I feel a bit of commotion and a cluster of people. A quick glance tells me a couple of nurses have started clapping and then everyone in the room, now at…
Sending Healing Energy
As I have been updating this blog, getting it to a new platform, and giving it a bit of an expansion and a make-over I found this draft from 2011, right after I was diagnosed with breast cancer. While I am in a much different place these days, this remains a topic worthy of discussion…
That Darned and Blessed “New Normal”
Dear Ones, Rest, with supervision. I’m feeling so much better, and learning how I need to live with metastatic breast cancer, well at least how it works for me at the moment. If you are curious, my updates follow. So so medical info – from a recent CT scan (that was relatively anxiety free)…
Took Me a Moment
It took me more than a few moments to wrap my head around the news I received from myoncologist recently. No more mammograms for me… After seemingly a lifetime of breast smushing, with all the associated pain, anxiety, and dread, now all of a sudden I don’t need to do it anymore. Statistically, the breast…
Awareness Time!
Dear Ones, I am part of a new community this year, one that none of us wanted to join. The metastatic breast cancer community. never in october While I am new there, those here who have known me for awhile are probably aware that I start bristling as October approaches. All the shades of pink…