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Pink The Petersen – Breast Cancer Awareness Basketball Game
This weekend I had the opportunity to be in the company of so many great women. Every year The University of Pittsburgh has a breast cancer awareness basketball game they call “Pink The Petersen”. Hundreds of people rush into the Petersen Event Center waiting to show their support for the cause of breast cancer, most in attendance have been directly affected by breast cancer either themselves or through a loved one. I have attended this event for the last 2 years. The very first year I attended, I had just been diagnosed with the disease that brought us together. It was a weird scenario for me. Picture it, Pittsburgh January…
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Get In Shape Girl!!
You know the moment – you go to the doctor’s for a routine physical, they tell you to step on the scale, and you are still overweight like you were last year? Yeah, me too! I don’t recall when I allowed myself to be the heaviest weight I have ever been, but I have been here for some years now, and I am over it!! Now… I am gonna preface this post by saying up until I was in my 20’s, I played competitive sports. Literally, from Kindergarten to my 2nd year in college, I played some type of sport. Soccer, softball, basketball, track & field, volleyball and even dance and piano in…
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Hair After Chemo – Starting my Loc Journey
I have had natural hair (meaning free of any texture altering chemicals) since 2005. I was a woman who loved a good relaxer! I always had a fresh bob cut on deck and at the sign of a kink in my roots, would not hesitate to slap some of that lye gook in my hair. After my Dad’s head on car accident in December 2004 though, my hair fell out due to the stress and an underlying condition I didn’t know I had – Hyperthyroidism. I lost a ton of weight, and my hair was falling out in clumps! Needless to say, the well-coiffed shoulder length wrap that I was…
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Haylee – Losing my First Cancer Friend
Cancer is a strange, cruel enemy. When I heard the 3 words “you have cancer”, I had no idea what my future entailed, or even if I would still be here today. It is something that I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy! Through my journey thus far with cancer, I have joined organizations and support groups that have helped me tremendously with life as a young cancer survivor. Through the ups and downs and everything in between, it’s these that have given me hope, great information, and been a support when I felt like no one understood what it meant to be a cancer survivor in your 30’s. Enter…
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Blogger? I Know, Right!!
I know, I know… A BLOG??? I asked myself the same thing! Who is gonna read it? Will I make an impact? Will I even connect to anyone? I would be lying if I said I wasn’t at least a little bit scared to start this blog, but, here I am! I have had the desire to start one since I was in college. Back then, blogging wasn’t as sophisticated as it is now. It was more of a way to journal your thoughts in a safe, controlled space – since I had been journaling and writing poetry since I was a teen I thought, why not?? All right, fast…
