Cancer Truth Note: #18 Second opinions are not disrespectful. Sometimes you are fortunate. You have friends who refer a doctor they love and trust or our trusted doctor refers us to another...

Cancer Truth Note: #17 People WILL say judgmental things about you and cancer. It’s about them, not you!  People are judgy. My mom told me one day about the daughter of a couple she met who didn’t...

Cancer Truth Note: #16 People are weird. Especially when it comes to someone else’s cancer. I could have stopped at people are weird. ALL PEOPLE. Yes, even you. When I was in the dating world, I met...

Cancer Truth Note: #15 Communication is hard. Communicating about cancer comes with a response burden that needs a warning label. No matter how squared away you think you are about sharing a...

Cancer Truth Note: #14 Cancer is not your fault. We view so much of life through the lens of fault and shame. No one says I am going to do x so that I get cancer. NO ONE. While you might have a...

Cancer Truth Note: #13 Why is this happening? Is a question without an answer. Too often I hear this question from people, sometimes years after a diagnosis. The fact is there is often not a...

Cancer Truth Note: #12 How you show up and play full out in your life, even with cancer, is a choice you get to make every day. Before my diagnosis I was embracing being a runner. I was a solid...

Cancer Truth Note: #11 Confidence in your choices means knowing you choose what’s right for you with the information you have at the time of the choice.  Feeling confident in your choices will make...

Cancer Truth Note: #10 You are the CEO of you. This is your story, no one else’s. There are a lot of choices to make, often early on and all at once. It is overwhelming and there are often a lot of...