Breast Cancer Stories & Survivor Stories

My story is simply a complicated mess. I am an LPN and I started my own little blog, I do not post nearly as often as I should but it is call BreastCancerandMurphysLaw, Google has picked it up. I guess the main reason I started a blog was so no one should ever go through… Continue reading Maggie's Silver Linings

After moving to Santa Barbara last year, I heard about your blog. I was diagnosed in 2009 with breast cancer and survived through the ringer of mastectomy, chemo, radiation and seemingly every side effect known to man. You’ve done an amazing job. I just started my own blog,www.baldisbetterwithearrings.com where I’m trying to share all the hints… Continue reading Andrea's Silver Linings

    Dear Hollye, My name is Katie Stotler, 2 years ago I underwent a bilateral mastectomy. After coming home from my surgery I had to deal many difficulties including the presence of four drains. I had purchased a camisole from a local store which I found added to my discomfort. The camisole was not… Continue reading Katie's Silver Linings

I was reading today a lot of your stories, and I realized how much some of the stories I have been reading are similar to mine. It made me very emotional and in some ways i felt very close to these women i will never meet . Sorry, my english is not very good. I… Continue reading Valérie's Silver Linings

It’s very hard to share my story or to find a place where I feel I belong because when I was diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer in my right breast on January 16, 2011, I chose to opt out of the current standard of care treatments. Instead I had two lumpectomies (a second for… Continue reading Sandy's Silver Linings

I am a 36 yr old female who was diagnose with Breast Cancer on Feb. 15,2011. I had stage one on left and stage two on right with skin involvement and lymphnode removed on right side from involvement. I also had a double mysectomy last April and facing reconstruction in the fall.I had about 6… Continue reading Lisa's Silver Linings

I have just spent the last 3 hours reading your “Silver Lining” story of your experiences with and surviving Breast Cancer. Wow!  This is my story: I am an educator, a wife, a daughter, a sister and a mother of 3 (one daughter 15, a 14 & 8 yr. old son. I was on with… Continue reading Deidre's Silver Linings

I don’t have cancer, but I have a chronic neurological illness that is very painful and potentially fatal: chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy or CIDP. My memoir, Fierce Joy -which offers a quite a number of silver linings is being published by Greenpoint Press, New York, NY. It tells the story of how illness shattered our… Continue reading Ellen's Silver Linings