Breast Cancer Action Month
October 1, 2026 This month you will see a lot of pink. Everywhere. In the metastatic breast cancer (MBC) community we refer to this month as Pinktober. Breast cancer is more than pink. Every person (woman and man) diagnosed with breast cancer has their life permanently altered, and not for the better. An MBC diagnosis…
The Next 3 Months 🗓️
September 24, 2026 Greetings from San Francisco! I am here attending the International Invasive Lobular Carcinoma Symposium with 300 others – patient advocates, researchers and clinicians. I’m grateful for the opportunity to be here and to learn so much. With flying here and being immersed in the meeting I’d literally forgotten I had a PET…
Seven Years of MBC
July 18, 2026 I’ve been thinking about how to frame this update. The short version is that everything is fine at the moment. I changed medications in April and my scans and bloodwork show that the presence of cancer in my body has decreased. For this I am extremely grateful. I also know that I’ve…
Risky Business
May 2, 2026 Happy spring. I hope you are enjoying the longer days and warmer weather. If any of you want to send some moisture this way, we’d appreciate it! You may recall that my scans in March showed some of the active cancer areas getting more active (bad news 👎). The good news is…
New Treatment Plan 💊
March 29, 2026 Hello again. A quick update on where I’ve landed with treatment. Over the next 2 weeks I’ll start what I consider my 5th line of treatment. If you are interested I’m tracking my treatments on the My Story link of this website/blog. I say 5th because I’m not really counting the clinical…
🌷Stepping into Spring and Uncertainty
March 14, 2026 Happy spring! It’s been crazy warm here with basically no snow this winter. It’s made it a bit easier to get outside but also worrisome. One thing I try not worry about is this damn cancer. There is a lot about my situation that is out of my control. Sometimes it’s hard…
Gratitude for 2025
December 26, 2025 – I hope you are all enjoying the holidays and they are evolving exactly as you need them to. This has been a busy month for cancer and overall quite good. Two infusions of Enhertu this month, both uneventful. An echocardiogram that was unchanged from 4 months ago. A PET scan that…
Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day
October 13, 2025 Today is Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day. We get this one day in breast cancer awareness month to shine a light on MBC. 1 in 3 of women cured of breast cancer will be diagnosed as stage IV (MBC), which is terminal. If we cure Stage IV, we cure all breast cancer.…
Busy September capped by radiation ☢️
October 11, 2025 September was a busy month for me in managing cancer. Back in June I had a brain MRI, which includes the very top of your spine (cervical). At that time, it looked like there might be an active tumor in part of my C1 vertebrae. I also had a full body PET…
Think Before You Pink – Support Research 🔬
October 1, 2025 When we moved to Colorado 16 years ago and I went to get my car license plates updated, I was asked if I wanted a “specialty plate”. There was one for breast cancer and I had been diagnosed only 6 months earlier. “What does the extra $60 for the breast cancer specialty…
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