Recent Posts Tagged With 'breast cancer'

• For Men Who Love Women Who Have Breast Cancer

  Posted on Saturday December 5th, 2009 at 21:56 in breast cancer

  Here's a book written by a man whose mother, sister, and wife have all had breast cancer. Stand by Her: A Breast Cancer Guide for Menby John W. Anderson has good advice for all aspects of supporting a woman through her cancer treatment.I cried when ...

• Outsmarting Cancer

  Posted on Sunday September 27th, 2009 at 21:30 in breast cancer, health books

  Here's a book about alternative cancer treatments that is energizing and hopeful. And it is also maddening, because much of the information has been suppressed for decades in the U.S. I feel really cheated about that. Outsmart Your Cancer: Alterna...

• The Power of Two

  Posted on Sunday August 2nd, 2009 at 14:06 in breast cancer, health books

  The Power of Two: Surviving Serious Illness with an Attitude and an Advocateby Brian and Gerri Monaghan is a valuable resource for someone who is responsible for organizing ongoing medical care for a relative or friend. In 1998 Brian, a well-regarde...

• Cancer, Politics, and Hope

  Posted on Wednesday July 22nd, 2009 at 12:43 in Cancer, breast cancer

  I'm happy to have found two new books that speak about mobilizing our society to investigate the underlying causes of cancer and make changes to decrease the number of cases of cancer in coming generations.The first book is No Family History: The En...

• Be a Friend in Need

  Posted on Wednesday July 15th, 2009 at 22:10 in Cancer, breast cancer, health books

  If you have a friend who is dealing with breast cancer, please get a copy of Treat Her Like a Princess: How to Help Your Girlfriend with Breast Cancerby Denise Hazen. Read the book, then gather your friend's friends together and plan what you can do...

• Things Happen in an Order for a Reason

  Posted on Thursday April 16th, 2009 at 19:02 in books, depression, breast cancer, energy healing, my story, migraines, wheat intolerance, low thyroid

  On the morning of Wednesday, July 16 last year, I went back to the nutritionist who had suggested I try giving up wheat. "I have so much energy!" I enthused. "Why didn't someone tell me about this forty years ago?" ("And why didn't you tell me abo...

• Breast Cancer

  Posted on Wednesday April 1st, 2009 at 20:50 in books, breast cancer, my story

  I really, really tried to keep from getting it.My mom had a mastectomy when she was 53 years old. I started getting regular mammograms when I was 30. When I was 45, microcalcifications started showing up on my mammograms, and I’d have to go back ...

• Wheat-Free At Last

  Posted on Saturday March 28th, 2009 at 16:32 in depression, breast cancer, my story, migraines, wheat intolerance, wheat-free, low thyroid

  On July 2, 2008 my nutritionist looked at me with an aha! look on her face and said, “I bet you’re allergic to wheat. Go home and eat no grains but rice for two weeks, then come back and tell me how you feel.”I had been dealing with a growing ...