Cancer Journey Blog Posts

Knitting for Healing

Knitting for Healing

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...

Hair Loss and Chemo

Hair Loss and Chemo

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...

Radiation Treatment and Deodorant

Radiation Treatment and Deodorant

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, like...