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Looking for a ‘shortcut’ to bigger better boobs? Breast cancer ain’t it
Elisabeth Dale of TheBreastLife.com asked me to do a guest post on her blog the other day, which worked out quite well because I was in the middle of a hissy fit about something I find particularly...
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Boxing, blogging and trying to ignore the breast cancer beast
Photo courtesy of Jim Seida / NBCNews.com Yes, I know it’s been a while since I posted anything. I’ve had a busy summer — hiking, baking, boxing and most of all doing this thing I like to call...
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Breast cancer comes to Downton Abbey
It’s always interesting to see how breast cancer comes across on television (less so during October, of course, when all of those creepy pink stereotypes are hauled out of the closet). BC has been the...
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Climbing back into the mouth of the beast
For those of you who haven’t noticed (as far as I can tell, there are about three who have), I am the world’s worst blogger. Or maybe I should say, the world’s most sporadic blogger. When I was going...
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You are entering a reconstruction zone
Photo by Erin Lodi, Columns Magazine It’s been a tough couple of weeks here at Recon Central. As I mentioned in my last post, I’m currently going through breast reconstruction, and contrary to the...
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Oversharing is caring
I was standing in line to check in at the plastic surgeon’s last week when a woman tapped me on the shoulder. “Excuse me,” she said. “Did you write about your breast reconstruction for the University...
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Reconstruction is not a boob job and other scary stories
October has been a bit of a crazy month for me. I had my second reconstruction surgery at the end of September – followed by a couple of post-op complications – so for weeks, I’ve just been trying to...
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Pardon my dust …
Just a note to let you know this site is under construction. Not the website: me. Since January 2013, I’ve been working with a great plastic surgeon at UW Medicine to reconstruct my girls, lost to...
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What if people treated other cancers like they do breast cancer?
I’ve been recuperating at home the last week or so, healing up after my fourth and FINAL breast reconstruction surgery (just need to “dot the i’s” and I’m done, folks – high five!). Anyway, like any...
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Coming to terms with your post-cancer body
Photo by Robert Hood / Fred Hutch News Service Once you’re flagged as somebody who might have cancer, you’re basically strapped onto the world’s worst carnival ride. The ride starts off slowly at first...
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Connecting and cancer whisperering
Me in 2011, post double mastectomy and mid-chemo. When I first started DoubleWhammied shortly after my breast cancer diagnosis in February 2011, it was because I needed a safe place to process all the...
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The elephant in the bedroom – yeah, I talked about sex after cancer treatment
Illustration by Kimberly Carney / Fred Hutch News Service Sex after cancer is complicated. You know what else is complicated? Writing about sex after cancer. I tackled the topic last week in a two-part...
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Get your geek on – and connect with cancer peeps – at the NW MBC conference
Big doins in the world of mets these days. And by mets, I mean metastatic breast cancer, not the baseball team. And by big doins, I mean the upcoming Northwest Metastatic Breast Cancer conference,...
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Meet the #LobMob of breast cancer
Illustration by Kimberly Carney / Fred Hutch News Service Finally got a chance to write about lobular breast cancer, my particular flavor, and profile rock star patient advocate (and friend) Leigh...
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Your spring breast cancer advocacy roundup from Seattle
It’s been a busy few months in Cancer Advocacy Land and it’s going to get even busier as we head full on into spring. I’ll be lending my patient voice to a couple of Seattle conferences on cancer care...
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I’m having a moment
Discovered a new Twitter tool that I’m geeking out about a little. It’s called ‘Moments’ and it lets you string a bunch of tweets together — yours and others’ — to create a short story. It’s a bit...
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Breast cancer, blood clots and ‘bridging the gap’
Beautiful blood clot illustration by Kimberly Carney. I swear the last year has been a blur. Between the cancer whispering job at Fred Hutch, the cancer advocacy world and our crazy clown car...
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Spinning science: how to cut through overhyped health news and medical...
My science writing team at Fred Hutch put together this series of stories to help the public — and especially cancer patients — cut through all the harmful health misinformation and overhyped nonsense...
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Coronavirus: what cancer patients need to know
So now there’s a pandemic. And my workplace and our scientists are right in the thick of it. I interviewed a couple of friends and Fred Hutch experts: one in infectious disease (Dr. Steve Pergam) and...
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Cancer and the coronavirus: hard prep
Ghecemy Lopez of Los Angeles, a two-time cancer survivor who now has immune issues. She dons plenty of PPE for her doctor’s visits. It’s pretty much been corona, corona, corona these last few months —...
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