by Beth DeLong | Last updated Jun 22, 2025 | Adventure After Diagnosis
Have you ever come across one of those towns that totally surprised you with its charm? You had a reason to stop – perhaps a friend lives there, or it’s an easy mid-point in your trip – or maybe you were literally just passing through on your way to somewhere far more...
by Beth DeLong | Last updated Jun 22, 2025 | Cancer Journey
You will likely have nurses emphasizing to you the importance of hydration during cancer treatment, both chemo and radiation. But if you don’t, then please, allow me. (ahem) DRINK PLENTY OF WATER DURING CHEMO AND RADIATION!! I’m not a huge water...
by Beth DeLong | Last updated Jun 22, 2025 | Cancer Journey
First of all, allow me to state the importance of drinking plenty of water during treatment! That said, let’s move on to #2. No, for real, #2. Because if you’re reading this article, you’re likely going through chemo or about to go through chemo...
by Beth DeLong | Last updated Jun 22, 2025 | Adventure After Diagnosis
When you think of the Jersey Shore, what comes to mind? Spring breakers and party-goers? Ladies dressed to the nines in heels and miniskirts? Maybe just boardwalks and beachgoers? I had never been to New Jersey before, and I was excited to add a new...
by Beth DeLong | Last updated Jun 22, 2025 | Cancer Journey
Most people don’t like a one-upper. We’ve all met them – someone who always, regardless of the topic, has to have the final say. Perhaps she had the worst illness, or he had attended the best college, or she had the worst boyfriend, or he had the absolute bestest...
by Beth DeLong | Last updated Jun 22, 2025 | Cancer Journey
My radiation was put on hold for two days. Two days further behind schedule because my radiation marks had shifted and warped. Rather than a thin, straight line so my doctor could pinpoint my treatment down to the millimeter, I had a pudgy, drunken curve...
by Beth DeLong | Last updated Jun 22, 2025 | Cancer Journey
Along the Jersey Shore lies the modest, charming town of Ocean Grove. Its small-town feel and Victorian architecture seem a direct contrast to the stereotypical notion of a Jersey beach town. And yet this town, with its humble beginnings as a Methodist campsite in...
by Beth DeLong | Last updated Jun 22, 2025 | Crafty Eunice, Cancer Journey
Knitting is one of those activities that can easily shift from the general category of “hobby” to something deeper, a coping mechanism, without your ever becoming aware of the change. Somewhere it transitions from knitting for fun to knitting for healing. For...
by Beth DeLong | Last updated Jun 22, 2025 | Adventure After Diagnosis
I have friends who have traveled to countless countries, camping their way through Africa or in the jungles of India. They’ve navigated the terrain on their own without a guide or knowledge of the language. And each time they’ve returned home in one piece and with an...
by Beth DeLong | Last updated Jun 22, 2025 | Cancer Journey
Tell any woman she’ll have to have chemotherapy and one of her first thoughts will be about chemo hair loss. We live in a society where a lot of feminine identity is based on our hair. Is it long enough? Straight enough? Curly enough? Too gray? Too wild? You don’t...
by Beth DeLong | Last updated Jun 22, 2025 | Cancer Journey
Can we just be honest for a minute? How many of you actually wore deodorant after your first couple weeks of radiation? Because for serious y’all, wearing deodorant on sore armpits is hard! When I first started radiation treatment I wore deodorant,...
