Body to Pat: Pay Attention
For most of my life, I have been oblivious to myself. Sure, I was pretty confident about who I was; I knew I was smart, capable, funny, but I knew this on an intellectual level, not an emotional or,...
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Exercising Safely After Breast Cancer Treatment: How to Get Started
I’m not usually one who says things like, “it takes a special person to do so and so,” but breast cancer survivors are special people. I’ve found that working with survivors challenges me and makes me...
View ArticleExercising Safely: How to Find a Qualified Personal Trainer
Welcome to blog #2 on exercising safely after breast cancer treatment. In this blog I will talk about what makes a qualified personal trainer and how to find one in your area. We all know that the...
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Wham Bam! A Cellulitis Scare After All These Years
Full disclosure here: My sole intent for sharing these details of my experience is simple. I hope to help someone else avoid what happened to me. To briefly recap Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 , this summer...
View ArticleChemotherapy and Exercise
When you go through chemotherapy, in addition to the preoccupation of whether or not it will effectively destroy the cancer cells, you may be concerned about how to retain your physical fitness during...
View ArticleWhat, Me Worry? And Worry, and Worry
I know a woman who has lived more than 30 years after a diagnosis of estrogen-negative breast cancer. When I asked her recently if she still worried about it returning, she said, “Not really.” I love...
View ArticleWhat My Patients Are Asking: How Bad Is the Flu This Year?
The rumor going around the hospital right now is that this flu* season is unusually bad. My colleagues and I have definitely seen some pretty sick patients. When Burt Reynolds ended up in a Florida...
View ArticleFor Our Mothers and Others — 5 Simple Ways to Reduce Your Exposure to...
Spring: birds singing and nesting, hyacinths and lilac perfuming the air, delicate daffodils and vibrant tulips decorating homes and gardens — a yearly reminder of nature’s beauty, fertility, and that...
View ArticleShaping Exercise Into Something That’s Anything but Routine
Movement is medicine for creating change in a person’s physical, emotional and mental states. – Carol Welch First, a confession: I’m an exercise addict. “Just do it?” Well, I’ve done it AND loved it:...
View ArticleThe Recent FDA Seminar on Female Sexual Dysfunction
I decided to delay our jump into the topic of libido since I want to update you on a very important meeting that recently took place at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in Washington, DC in late...
View ArticleSpeak to Me Stillness
Since my first cancer diagnosis in 1993, I have practiced meditation. Nothing fancy, just following my breath. I was initially breathing myself away from the loud speakers in my head suggesting that I...
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