Diagnosis: DONE. Next steps: Information gathering and making a PLAN. The Husband and I are planners. Good planners. After a weekend of diagnosis digestion, we set up a series of meetings with doctors in Santa Barbara: oncology, plastic surgery, radiation oncology and “my” surgeon. Pages and pages of notes, full of various opinions and strategies.… Continue reading After the Breast Cancer Diagnosis: Now What?
Breast Cancer
The Silver Pen Beginnings
The inspiration for the The Silver Pen (formerly known as BrooksideBuzz.com) is to document my physical, mental, emotional, spiritual and oftentimes hilarious journey through, with, over and around breast cancer. To clarify: breast cancer isn’t funny. Not at all. However, my journey? Frequently guffaw inducing. Another clarification: I prefer to call breast cancer FBC. The… Continue reading The Silver Pen Beginnings