Over several blog posts, we’ll be exploring the assumptions other make about breast cancer, the effects these assumptions have, and how Firefly Participants have responded to such assumptions. For the first blog in our Assumptions Others Make series, we welcome … Continue reading →
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A Day in the Life of COVID: May 2020
In Part 3 of this mini-blog series of journal exerpts from Susan Pettit, Firefly Guide and writer, a shortage of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for heatlhcare workers during the pandemic was reaching crisis levels. Day 38 A day in the … Continue reading →
Read MoreA Day In the Life of COVID: March 2020
COVID-19 has been a part of daily life for us since March, 2020. Daily life has certainly changed since that initial lockdown. Susan Pettit, Firefly Guide, has used writing to cope with the stresses and chaos of the past year. … Continue reading →
Read MoreOne Year Later: How COVID Changed my Breast Cancer Experience
It’s been one year. One long and crazy year. One year ago today – on March 9th, 2020 – Lucia received her breast cancer diagnosis. It seems fitting that we mark this month – March 2021 – by sharing Lucia’s* … Continue reading →
Read MoreHeart Health & Breast Cancer: A Survivor’s Story
“I always thought that someday, it would be breast cancer that would take my life,” Monique* admits. “But now I know that my heart has only so much time left.”
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