“No one wants to hear your cancer story,” my mother says. I’ve just shared with her a speech I intended to give to supporters…
Liz JohnsonMay 23, 2020
“Cancer doesn’t care about the virus. It will still grow, spread and kill us,” said Angela Oliver, a metastatic breast cancer patient whose treatment has…
Liz JohnsonApril 27, 2020
April Stearns was diagnosed with Stage III breast cancer when she was 35 and her daughter was 3. She started blogging when her daughter was…
Liz JohnsonApril 2, 2020
I was on a the phone with my mother when a call beeped through. "Let me get this," I said to her. "It could be…
Liz JohnsonMarch 18, 2020
As someone with a compromised immune system, I am being hyper vigilant about what's going on with the corona virus. I've read countless news stories,…
Liz JohnsonMarch 10, 2020
I am one of breast cancer’s newest recruits. Today is my last day as a civilian. Tomorrow I will have a port put in my…
Liz JohnsonJanuary 20, 2020
Well its been about 9 days since my first chemo treatment and I am almost feeling normal again. For all those giddy, gushing recent survivors…
Liz JohnsonJanuary 20, 2020
I reached out to a friend who had recently battled breast cancer to ask her about her experience. As a neophyte inductee, I was concerned…
Liz JohnsonJanuary 20, 2020
As I face life after breast cancer treatment, I find I have more questions than answers about how to move forward. So I’ve decided to…
Liz JohnsonJanuary 20, 2020
There are some dreams in life even cancer can’t dash. For Michelle Kaplan, that was becoming a mom. It didn’t matter that she was recently…
Liz JohnsonJanuary 20, 2020
This piece was written by Michelle Kaplan who went on to become a mom after her breast cancer treatment (Dear Cancer: You Can’t Have it…
Liz JohnsonJanuary 20, 2020
It’s one of those regular check-ups nearly a year out from chemo and your oncologist looks at you earnestly and asks if you have any…
Liz JohnsonJanuary 20, 2020
There’ so much to tell you, so much you won’t be able to listen to. So I’ll start simple. Overwhelmed, right? Don’t worry, that passes.…
Liz JohnsonJanuary 20, 2020
A friend handed me a newspaper article offering eight tips on ways to develop resiliency. When I read them it hit a nerve. The tips…
Liz JohnsonJanuary 20, 2020
My body is cheating on me again, or so my doctor suspects. Harmless flirtation, she says. Just being friendly, she tells me. And I sooooo…
Liz JohnsonJanuary 20, 2020
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