Cancer Truth Notes: #208

Cancer Truth Note: #208 Challenge is in the eye of the beholder. We all come to a situation with varying perspectives. Hard for one person may be easy for another. It is impossible to tell from the outside which way a challenge may go for someone else. Yoga class is a...

Cancer Truth Notes: #207

Cancer Truth Note: #207 Taking the extra time to listen to patients, really hear their concerns, and educate them on what to expect or what the next steps might be saves doctors TIME and patients FEAR. Time is a commodity most doctors do not have enough of.  If we are...

Cancer Truth Notes: #206

Cancer Truth Note: #206 How we make decisions after cancer may not be how we made decisions before cancer. I do not have children, I am guessing this manner of decision making may not be that different from how you make decisions after having kids. There is new...

Cancer Truth Notes #205

Cancer Truth Note: #205 Who you are before cancer is NOT who you are after cancer. This is just a fact, no matter how much we would like to think that we go through treatment and go back to being who we were before. Diagnosis and treatment are a form of trauma,...

Cancer Truth Notes: #204

Cancer Truth Note: #204 Listening to your body when it whispers so it doesn’t scream is even more important when you are in a phase of healing. Our body gives us all kinds of alerts depending on the circumstance. One of our jobs is to pay attention and respond...

Cancer Truth Notes: #203

Cancer Truth Note: #203 Downtime is less enjoyable when it feels like it is forced on us. Can you relate? I require a minimum of one day of downtime a week, guilt free. However, when I was forced into weeks of downtime I felt like there were a million other things...