by Solis Cancer Community | May 17, 2024 | Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Health
Rest. It can be a hard thing to get ourselves to do. I don’t know about you, but taking time out brings me a decent level of anxiety. I think it’s likely two things for me: my people pleasing tendencies (I’m a recovering people pleaser, as I like to say) and the...
by Solis Cancer Community | Jul 20, 2022 | Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Health, My Story
Today is my 5-year cancerversary. It’s the big one, the one where they say your risk drops by a significant percent. Breast cancer differs slightly in that it’s the cancer that keeps on giving; it has a tendency to ignore the status quo established by the medical...
by Solis Cancer Community | Oct 29, 2021 | Testing and Tools
I had a request come in a while ago for this one, and I’m excited to finally get to it! CTC (circulating tumour cell) tests are something that I have utilized since the beginning to achieve two important goals: monitor my response to my integrative protocol during...
by Solis Cancer Community | Aug 20, 2021 | Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Health, Relationships and Cancer
Loss seems to come hand in hand with cancer. We lose a lot personally – our hair, pieces of our physical body, our life before, who we were before – but of course, we also lose people. When I was diagnosed, I was lucky to discover a lot of support organisations. I...
by Solis Cancer Community | Jul 23, 2021 | Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Health, My Story
My cancerversary always looms large in my mind as the day approaches. I usually get quite reflective and think a lot about the previous year, how I’ve changed, how my life has changed, and what role my cancer experience has played in those changes. This year felt...
by Solis Cancer Community | Jul 9, 2021 | Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Health, My Story
I remember when…I was first diagnosed. I remember how terrified yet numb I felt. It’s such an odd emotional place to be in; odd, and no fun at all. I had no idea what to expect, and it was all I could do to follow their instructions and get to my car, get to the...
