Because I started out blogging about my breast cancer experience on a site called Caringbridge, I never really shared what I went through with my chemotherapy treatments on this blog. My Left Breast starts at my mastectomy and reconstruction, after I’d finished all my chemotherapy. This is my post on Caringbridge from April 28, 2010, which I wrote after my …
“He opened the jar of pickles when no one else could. He was the only one in the house who wasn’t afraid to go into the basement by himself. It was understood when it rained, he got the car and brought it around to the door. When anyone was sick, he went out to get …
Midlife Boulevard is happy to share Claudia Schmidt’s reflections on her breast cancer treatment and recovery, including her 15 Life Lessons from Having Breast Cancer. Today, Claudia talks about how she got through chemotherapy treatment and has advice for chemotherapy patients. Here are 10 tools to help with breast cancer treatment. Read more from Claudia Schmidt …
We’ve published several beautiful posts from Claudia Schmidt of MyLeftBreast.net about dealing with her diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer. What Claudia didn’t know until she was an adult about her mother’s hiding chronic illness. Can seeing one way of coping with a diagnosis help you deal with your own diagnosis in a different way? I Thought …
It’s Spring and that means it’s baseball season. I happen to have a love/hate relationship with the game of baseball. Which is kind of tricky because every spring and summer for the past 12 years my life has been consumed with this sport. My husband started my son out in T-Ball when he was about …
