November 11th is the day I recognize as my cancerversary: the day I squinted over my phone and read the words “invasive ductal carcinoma” in my MyChart app while standing outside of the food hall on my lunch break at work. If we’re being honest, I knew what the results would be nearly a week… Continue reading

I’d told myself I wouldn’t write anything this month. Last October was my first Breast Cancer Awareness Month as someone with breast cancer, and I was angry. I’d joined a social media campaign to call out companies engaging in Pinkwashing (aka profiting off the disease that’s stolen over a year of my life and is… Continue reading

No one told me that getting cancer would turn me into a haunted house. It’s not the kind of change that happens over time, or even overnight. The life that you’ve known ends the minute you’re diagnosed. In fact, it feels like everything you’ve known changes in that instant. In time, you’ll begin to grieve… Continue reading