I don’t know why I am still completely floored when I have an “episode” of head/body issues. I had an episode that started on Thursday night and it is still lingering today. Thursday night I …
Stage 4
Cancerland Craziness
I knew there would be a day when I would be told I couldn’t get chemo due to numbers…I thought those numbers would have to do with low blood counts or something else…not blood pressure numbers. I had …
So very thankful
Thanksgiving 2014 At first I thought I was going to write about how my last few Thanksgivings were really hard for me because my body wasn’t healthy. Then I thought, I don’t want to talk …
Panic Attacks
Panic attack I remember the first panic attack I ever had. I was 25, exhausted from doing too much and I snapped like a rubber band pulled too tight. I didn’t know it then that …
Renee In Cancerland book snippet
Mascara – October 3, 2008 Today is the first day since I heard the news that I have worn mascara. No, not because all my eyelashes have already fallen out. I wonder if they really …
A real look at living with Stage 4 Breast Cancer
A real look at living with Stage 4 Breast Cancer 14 hours I just woke up from sleeping 14 hours straight. I went to bed last night after Eric came home early from work because …
Stage 4 Breast Cancer Education
I have said I feel like it is one of my duties to educate others of Stage 4 Metastatic breast cancer. SO, you are getting more education today?!?!? Before I do though, a little back …
An article about me from Livestrong
I have been extremely blessed on #ReneeInCancerland journey. From my doctors, to friends and family, to random contacts who eventually become friends – everywhere I look I see blessing from CancerLand. Here is the link …
What is Breast Cancer to me?
It is a lot more than the pretty pink ribbons people like to doll it up with…well, some people – I assume – yes, I am grouping people together here. Cancer…any cancer isn’t pretty no …
Here we go again.
October is here and ugh, what I see does not make me happy. Pink, pink, pink – everywhere is pink. It might make you think everything is Pretty in Pink. IT IS NOT. I am …