I was running the diagnosis/decision-making/surgery/radiation event for the last six months. Now I metaphorically crossed under the arch of balloons, entered a new chapter and I am training for other things.

I know that there is something special about putting words on paper or electronic documents - however imperfectly - right in the middle of life events.

When it’s my turn, the technician and I walk a short, beige-colored hallway and turn left into a dim, blue-lit, Star-Trek looking room that has the giant radiation machine in the center.

Following my diagnosis of early stage breast cancer, I had a hard time connecting with phrases like “Beat iit!” Then I heard Michael Jackson’s iconic song …

I was diagnosed with early stage breast cancer in November and this website and communications slowed down. It wasn’t the health condition that kept me from reaching out, or maybe it was.