Brenda is looking for housing. For any time in May ideally, and June 1st at the very latest would be ideal. This is a dream. I’m still trying to acquire funding which I currently do not have but you can’t reach goals without putting them out to the Universe and asking for help, right? I’m asking for…
Good morning. Here’s an update on upcoming breast cancer follow-up stuff: In just over a couple of weeks, April 30th, I will be back at the BC Cancer Agency in Victoria for a follow up with my medical oncologist. I am hoping that she gives me good news and so I don’t have to go…
LIGHT energy. Today, I crave lightness in everything I do and experience. That light and airy feeling. That. I accept no less, today. Love, Brenda
From March 22nd to October 6th 2015 (dates chosen intuitively by a friend) … there is a new fundraiser live online, called Help Brenda Build a Life Without Cancer. Can you please help spread the word? I would be so grateful. I am thankful to my friend Philippa for pulling it all together and posting it…
I’m in a major transition. Recovering from cancer while in a housing transition. It’s a bit much. Overwhelming and stressful, but Teddy makes it more FUN. Wherever I go, my dog Teddy goes. We are a team. Is it easy traveling with a 70-pound standard poodle in tow? While staying at other peoples homes and…
Today I am announcing a NEW fundraising campaign, Help Brenda Johima Build A New Life Without Cancer. One special friend set it all up for me, did the writing and everything. I am grateful. Several online friends had suggested that I put up a new fundraising page, since the last fundraiser, A Helping Hand for Brenda, ended…
I have not posted for a long long time. I have been tired. Very tired. Physically, mentally and emotionally exhausted. However, I do want to keep sharing here on this journal/blog and to start sharing again, starting right now. So I will share with you, a secret Facebook post from today: *** It takes COURAGE to share…
In my last blog post I wrote about The Light At The End of the Tunnel and I thought that I was going to see it on my last trip to Victoria to the BC Cancer Agency. I made the 4-hour trip on my own, in traffic, eager to hear what I thought I was going to hear…
I can’t believe it’s been 4 months today, since my last chemotherapy treatment. Yay! And it’s been 10 weeks since I competed radiation treatments. Yay! 9 months since I got my official diagnosis of breast cancer. And 13 months since I was in the walk-in clinic showing the doctor the lump I’d found in my…
Cancer was hard. There’s one thing that I want to hang onto >> how it changed me for the better.