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Journeying Beyond Breast Cancer
http://beyondbreastcancer.wordpress.com/
A mix of medical news and personal views of a young woman making sense of the cancer experience
- Author: coolrain
- Listed in: Women's Health Development and Growth
- Tags: breast cancer
Recent Posts
Poetry Friday
How would it be, If just for today, We thought less about contests and rivalries Profits and politics, Winners and sinners, And more about Helping and giving, Mending and blending, Reaching out, And pitching in? How would it be? Hold on to what is go...
Culture by prescription
An interesting article in this week’s Irish Times Health, reports that Swedish doctors will soon be able to prescribe singing lessons, pottery classes or art appreciation as part of a new public healthcare initiative. Sweeden is testing a n...
When the fog lifts: a new perspective on chemo brain
When I started to read Dan Barry’s “My brain on chemo: alive and alert“, in the New York Times, I thought at first I was in for a treatise on the side effects of chemotherapy – nausea, hair loss, fatigue and the lingering chem...
Pink Glove Dance
You may have seen this video on YouTube but for those who haven’t, I thought I would post it today. The staff of Providence St. Vincent Medical Center decided to do something a little different to promote breast cancer awareness. The employe...
Meat Free Monday
Today’s recipe comes courtesy of my friend, Karen from the Netherlands. It is so great when readers of this blog share their favorite recipes and so I am delighted today to share with you Karen’s recipe for a warming, nutr...
A camera as her therapy
Some of us write, some of us paint, some of us draw, some even doodle; whatever form of creative expression comes most naturally to us, we make sense of our cancer diagnosis and treatment through creative expression. For photojournalist, Alexandra Av...
