A major symptom of cancer and cancer treatment is severely dry skin. Skin that feels rough and coarse like sandpaper. The thing about incredibly coarse, dry skin… It hurts. And when you’re knee-deep in a cancer fight you don’t need to deal with that type of pain on top of everything else. Painful skin is…
I remember my husband’s first surgery for cancer. I was a wreck. We had no idea what to expect and I was filled with so much anxiety, I wasn’t even sure how we’d get through this. (Note: if you’re feeling super anxious about an upcoming surgery, it’s a good idea to read this. It helped…
How do you keep fighting, when you can barely get out of bed? How do you keep going when you’re so exhausted that tackling a big, overwhelming situation like a cancer diagnosis feels impossible? In the beginning, my whole family was a ball of fire. We were oozing positive energy, we were determined to beat…
The best Bermuda cruise review with useful and relevant tips for successful travel with someone who has cancer. When my dad was first diagnosed with Lung Cancer, we figured we had two choices… We could spend our time stressed and worried about the things we couldn’t change -or- We could go out and enjoy life…
When my dad was first diagnosed with Lung Cancer, we lost an important disk containing scans, records, and other information we needed for the admissions process at Memorial Sloan Kettering. We wasted hours looking for that disk and then another full day (and the additional cost) of having another one made. I still have no…
After going through chemo, radiation, and then starting immunotherapy my dad would frequently tell me that his skin felt like sandpaper. “Look at it” he’d say, “you ever see that commercial with the alligator? That’s what it feels like. You could sand out a whole table using my arm.” The thing about incredibly dry skin……
What’s that saying? Life is 10% what happens to you, and 90% how you respond to it? When my dad was first diagnosed with Lung Cancer, the doctors told us we had “days to weeks” left together. Thankfully, God had a better plan. Our cancer journey lasted 21 months, and we fought a battle together…
Makeup for cancer patients dealing with cancer and cancer treatment. If you want to look good and feel better, we’ve got you covered. “I hate this. It’s bad enough I feel sick all the time, and now I hate the way I look so much I don’t even want to go out in public. I’d…
There’s a lot of unique gifts for back pain floating around out there but most of them don’t work. Take it from someone with lower back pain, bulging discs, sciatica, and wicked spasms that sometimes knock me right off my feet. For 18 years I worked with aggressive children with substantial behavioral issues and for…
I’ll never forget the day my dad was diagnosed with cancer. It was the very first day of my family’s cancer life, even though I didn’t know it then. He’d been having some really strange symptoms and had been to at least 10 different specialists trying to find someone who could help him. That day he…