by Connect Thru Cancer | Mar 8, 2021 | General, My Story
“I am brave” should be the mantra of every single human on the planet for this past year! I was not sure I had something more to say about cancer, as I felt I had shared my story. However, the end of 2020 came quickly and as an epic year not to be forgotten. Then as...
by Connect Thru Cancer | Dec 2, 2020 | General
What is your “happily ever after?” Is there even such a thing? I have been pondering this question a lot lately. Coincidentally, I came across a podcast recently called “The Happiness Lab” and was listening to an episode with Professor Daniel Gilbert the other day....
by Connect Thru Cancer | Oct 6, 2020 | General, My Story
Cancer. I could write about the fear, the pain, the unknown, but isn’t that what everyone writes about? How painful it is to tell their spouse, children, family and friends? Yes, it is all that, but it is nothing like what it is to live the life of having cancer, the...
by Connect Thru Cancer | Sep 10, 2020 | General, My Story
by Tracey Treat I received the call on January 30th. “You have breast cancer”. I immediately thought, this is not my first rodeo, I can do this. One lump, no sweat. I made my first calls and surprisingly, I was calm, calmer actually than the people I was telling. The...
by Connect Thru Cancer | Jul 8, 2020 | General, My Story
The Definition of a “Rockstar” It was May of 1983. I was in 10th grade at Marple Newtown High School in Newtown Square, PA. I thought the world was literally going to end if I did not get to the Tower Theater in Upper Darby to see a new band called U2. It was a...
by Connect Thru Cancer | Apr 30, 2020 | General
by Guest Blogger: Tracey Treat I thought I did everything right. I exercise, eat healthy, and do my very best to live a stress-free life. I’m on top of my health screenings, including a mammogram every year. So, I repeatedly ask myself, how at 51 years old do I...
by Connect Thru Cancer | Sep 17, 2019 | General
I guess I should start by pointing out that I have never written a blog post before, and that my husband and I are generally not sharers. For example, I went an entire year at a job without my supervisor knowing that I had a daughter, and not because I was hiding her...
by Connect Thru Cancer | Jul 8, 2019 | My Story
When I was first diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer, I didn’t know where to turn. I was 32 years old, and my son had just turned two. We lived in a new town, knew no one, and felt unbelievably overwhelmed. Parenting a toddler is difficult under the best of...
by Connect Thru Cancer | Oct 29, 2018 | General
Cancer has taught me many things. Learning how to accept and ask for help was something that I was not accustomed to. In addition to being a bit of a control freak, I considered asking for help a sign of weakness. I knew I was capable of handling it all; until I got...
by Connect Thru Cancer | Sep 27, 2018 | General
There were 3 of us. The 3 amigos, bonded by cancer and travel soccer. As our daughters ran up and down the sidelines we updated each other on our latest medical updates. Christine, an 18-year survivor with four kids was tough as nails. Her cancer kept creeping back...
