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Weight Stigma, a Story from Aunt Amelia

Posted on October 3, 2020 by Amelia Mitchell

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.

Medicine for the Wealthy

Posted on August 30, 2019October 24, 2019 by Amelia Mitchell

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

Posted on July 31, 2019August 18, 2019 by Amelia Mitchell

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.

Posted on July 7, 2019July 28, 2019 by Amelia Mitchell

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 …

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Intentional Language

Posted on May 13, 2019July 28, 2019 by Amelia Mitchell

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…

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The Ringing of the Bell

Posted on April 13, 2019July 28, 2019 by Amelia Mitchell

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

Posted on April 13, 2019April 13, 2019 by Amelia Mitchell

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”

Posted on December 22, 2018April 13, 2019 by Amelia Mitchell

  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

Posted on November 11, 2018April 11, 2019 by Amelia Mitchell

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!

Posted on September 23, 2018April 11, 2019 by Amelia Mitchell

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…

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