Days of Whine and Roses

[...] , but is not in my immediate future. With reconstruction still several months away, I purchased a fake boob shortly after my surgery. Being someone with an overabundance of breasts, I needed something [...]

[...] game, “Find Mom’s Boob.” I’m thinking of a photo study, a la Flat Stanley, with my fake boob as the star. Someone get me an agent! 8. Oh, but isn’t my cancer and it’s subsequent [...]

[...] is inappropriate and I’m a crappy mom for ever allowing them to even know that I have a fake boob. You know what? I don’t care. When my kids are laughing because my husband is playing [...]

[...] (nipple clamps always make me laugh) to the sublime (watching my kids play keep away with my fake boob). I wish I could say I laughed every day, but I did laugh a lot. When I look back on this year, [...]

[...] headed in the wrong direction. And that is simply not the case. I’d rather fail at being a cancer patient than fail at my life. [...]

[...] happy, healthy and whole. I can only hope to have the same experience with my new status as a cancer patient who has finished treatment. [...]

[...] being punished for somehow not being a good enough person? Did it mean that I was going to be a crappy mom and infertility was just the way to keep me from ruining members of the next generation? My [...]

[...] In these days leading up to Mother’s Day, I’m struck by a single thought. I’m a crappy mom. There are so many positive affirmations out there this time of year. “Don’t worry, Mom, you’re [...]

[...] and snarky and sarcastic and proud to be so. But the positive reinforcement engendered by a cancer diagnosis may have me changing at least the pessimistic-side of my personality. People have been [...]

[...] half of this week, but other than that, my calendar looks much the same as it did pre-cancer diagnosis. And I would venture to say that it’s going to look quite similar post-treatment. I [...]

Kelly Ripa, she of her eponymous television show, Colgate and Nutella commercials, has caused quite a stir. She went on “The Wendy Williams” show [...]

I fear I may have backed myself into a bit of a corner here. I have been so focused on the “positives” of cancer (perky rack, good painkillers, fr [...]