One is never fully aware of cancer until it affects someone they know personally. We all know someone who has been affected by it. However, it just doesn't hit home until that one person you knew one way begins to slow down, goes bald from chemo, fingers get dark from neuropathy, has scars from surgery,... Continue Reading →
Count Your Blessings
< No one feels reassured by the phrase "It could be worse." It doesn't help people put their problems into perspective and feel better. If anything, it reminds people that they are going through adverse circumstances and they dwell on them a little more by comparing it to what others are going through. When my... Continue Reading →
A Birthday Earned
We make big deals of birthdays. We should. Tomorrow isn't promised and the beginning of a new year is a reason to celebrate. The last three October 7th's have been something else for my mother. In 2011, she was just diagnosed with cancer. In 2012, she had undergone surgery, chemo, radiation, and was celebrating overcoming... Continue Reading →
Praying For My Mother
As I've got older it's been less and less, but growing up I was a mamma's boy. My mother and I were really close. As I've got older we still are but I'm an adult and at one point had someone who replaced her as number one girl to me. With that said, my mom... Continue Reading →
Being Aware of Breast Cancer
This Sunday was my mother's 29th birthday. As I'd stated before we went to the city (that's what us locals call Manhattan) to go to this Sisters Circle Convention. They started oft with a church service by the legendary Hezekiah Walker which was great. They had all kinds of vendors and panels as well about... Continue Reading →