by Solis Cancer Community | Dec 18, 2020 | Latest News, Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Health, My Story
What a year it has been. Oomph. It’s been incredibly hard for so many people for so many different reasons. And when we have years like this, those soul-crushing, existence-questioning, normalcy-out-the-damn-window years, we can’t wait to jump into the new one...
by Solis Cancer Community | Oct 30, 2020 | Latest News, Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Health, My Story
Intuition. Some of you may be wondering what this has to do with cancer; I know I definitely would have been at the beginning of this whole journey. You may have decided to go with everything that your oncology team offered you, and there is of course absolutely...
by Solis Cancer Community | Oct 16, 2020 | Latest News, Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Health
I was substitute teaching at a school today that I don’t go to very often. There is a subconscious reason for that, I’m realizing now. I was on my way there this morning, and this crazy sense of dejavu came over me. Not just dejavu, where you can see in your mind...
by Solis Cancer Community | Oct 9, 2020 | Latest News, Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Health
I was asked recently what one word came to mind when I thought of cancer, and what first popped into my mind was “change”, both good and bad. When we get a diagnosis, everything just stops. Everything you’ve been doing up to that point becomes entirely about cancer...
by Solis Cancer Community | Jun 12, 2020 | Latest News, Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Health, My Story
Most of us have heard this quote, that we can’t know how deep out strength goes unless it is tested. It can sound pretty cliché, and I always thought so, until mine was actually tested. When cancer came knocking on the door of my life, I discovered that there is...
by Solis Cancer Community | May 16, 2020 | Testing and Tools
Like many women and men, I found my breast tumour myself. I never did regular (or, as I have now learned, proper) self exams; I would just have a superficial feel around every couple of months and sufficiently freak myself out about all the lumps and bumps I felt to...