Breast cancer and chemotherapy wreak havoc on a person’s skin and I am (of course) no exception. However, I have found a skin care Silver Lining in Melanie Simon, a licensed esthetician and owner of A Beautiful You in Santa Barbara. Her goal is to provide effective, multi-purpose, cutting-edge skincare products that are free of harmful elements.
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Sunday Silver Linings
Every time I feel like I hit the pit of chemo and breast cancer despair, I find a Silver Lining. Every single time it is a SL that brings me back and makes me smile. Gives me perspective.
Saturday Snapshots
This has been a week of ups and downs (as is consistently the case with breast cancer).
However, when I look back on the week (in photographs), I ultimately feel happy and peaceful because Silver Linings always seem to shine through.
Friday's Fixin's: Kale Chips
Kale is widely considered the yardstick by which all other foods are measured. Health benefits are extraordinary and include risk-lowereing for breast cancer. Hope you enjoy this Silver Lined Kale Chip recipe.
Regurgitas (Not for the squeamish)
While my reaction to the last round of chemotherapy has been better (Silver Lining), the nausea has been much more acute. What this means is that I have nausea everyday, all day, but sometimes it feels particularly bad. Well, today, that pesky nausea upped the ante.
Subscription Service Change, Part 2
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Silver Lining Book: The Tender Bar
The Tender Bar by J.R. Moehringer is a wonderful book that has added a generous Silver Lining to my library and taken my mind off the nausea of FBC.
Chi Nei Tsang
Because traditional, Western medicine has not been particularly effective with my gnarly chemotherapy side effects, I’ve been open to trying and incorporating all kinds of alternative treatments on my breast cancer treatment train.
Joy
Hope you are having a Silver-Lined weekend!
A Spoonful of Sugar
Finally Five and I shared a wonderful Silver Lining afternoon with Mary Poppins. We learned innumerable supercalifragilisticexpialidocious life lessons that we hold near and dear during breast cancer and will carry with us long after.