Tag: Cancer

How an Emergency Physician Learned to Embrace Fear

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As a 5-year-old child, I had a terrible experience lasting several hours, during which I remember thinking that I should just let the people...

Childhood Cancer, My Son, and His Guitar

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My son Abe was diagnosed with a very rare bone cancer in his leg in December of his senior year of high school (Read...

I Didn’t Know I Had Colon Cancer until I Had my...

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At my last physical my doctor told me I needed to schedule my first routine colonoscopy. My immediate reaction was that at 45, I...

Lumpectomy versus Mastectomy for Breast Cancer Treatment

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Mario…. I’m really sorry. The disembodied voice came over the phone at 2 pm in the middle of a busy ER where, just moments before,...

Breast Cancer at 35: The Story of My Diagnosis

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My name is Josilyn and I am 35 years old. I am a mom. I am a wife. I am a daughter. I am...

Surviving Menopause: A Young Mom’s Adventure in Early Menopause

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January 5th, 2015, I started menopause. I was 36 years old, a wife and mother of two small kids. Most of us can remember the...

Parenting with Metastatic Breast Cancer: Year One

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About a year ago, I announced on this blog that I was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer. You remember? The fear, the anger, the...

Colonoscopy: My Gastrointestinal Adventure

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Dear friends, I have been sick. Not "sick and tired," but really, truly physically sick. It is hard for me to write and not give every single...

Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Moms in Training Program!

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{BVTMB has partnered together with the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society to bring you this sponsored post about their Moms in Training opportunity. We are proud...

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Now

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Well, hello Burlington! After spending summers in Vermont my entire life, and attending UVM, I always thought I would be a Burlington mom myself,...

When someone you know has cancer…

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My sister cousin has breast cancer. She’s also my best friend. She’s not the kind of best friend where we coo about how much we...

Shop VT 2013: Your Local Holiday Gift Guide Day 5

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We are back with our last and final day of Shop VT 2013. It has been so much fun sharing all of these amazing local...

My Recent Health Scare:: Breast Cancer Awareness Month

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*This is an older post from our archives, but we thought it was appropriate to share during Breast Cancer Awareness Month, as we seek...

How Lung Cancer Broke My Heart

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November is National Lung Cancer Awareness month. This is a little known fact coming out of Breast Cancer Awareness last month in October.  And...