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Metastatic Breast Cancer

Paulette's 21st Blog Post | Saving My Life: The Value of a Second Opinion

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Paulette's 21st Blog Post | Saving My Life: The Value of a Second Opinion

I have spent much of the past week in a doctor’s office. I had four appointments, to be exact. It all started on Tuesday when I saw a new (to me) oncologist in Trumbull, CT.  Let’s call him Dr. F. I sought out Dr. F.’s opinion upon the recommendation of a member of the Exceptional Cancer Patients (ECAP) support group of which I am also a member. Our leader is the internationally known surgeon-turned-author and spiritual guru Bernie Siegel.  The purpose of my appointment with Dr. F. was to seek a second opinion about the next course of treatment on my metastatic breast cancer journey.  Our first meeting can be summed up in one word: FABULOUS!

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Paulette's 20th Blog Post | Vermont Retreat: Prelude to the Next Phase of My Journey

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Paulette's 20th Blog Post | Vermont Retreat: Prelude to the Next Phase of My Journey

Hello friends, as always, it’s good to be back with you this week.  This is a milestone for me – my 20th blog post!  Thank you all for following my story and supporting me on my cancer healing journey.  I’m writing you today from the beautiful, picturesque mountains of Vermont, where I’ve come for a few days of intensive therapy for my lymphedema, one of the side effects of my treatment for breast cancer. 

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Paulette's 17th Blog Post | Fascinating Facts About Metastatic Breast Cancer, Hear My Voice

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Paulette's 17th Blog Post | Fascinating Facts About Metastatic Breast Cancer, Hear My Voice

Thank you for following this four-part series about Metastatic Breast Cancer (MBC) entitled “Hear My Voice.”  It is such a critically important topic to all of the women and men who are living with the disease.  It is also critical to the family members of those who have lost loved ones to MBC over the years.  We all know women and men who have earned their angel wings, and we are strengthened and inspired by the legacies they left behind.  Finally, it is important to our children, because we want them to inherit a breast cancer free world.  We want their world to be free of deaths from breast cancer and diagnoses of it.

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Paulette's 13th Blog Post | In The Meantime

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Paulette's 13th Blog Post | In The Meantime

This week, I’m going to talk about the meantime.  As you know, the meantime can refer to the time being, the here and now, or the interval between two phases of one’s life, whatever those bookends are for you.  It’s that period before something anticipated happens, or before a specified era ends.  The meantime can be a space that is fallow or uncultivated if you allow it to be, or conversely, it can be a space where seeds are planted that bear fruit for you to harvest, fruit that will last.  

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