Author: brendawrites
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one toxic energy
One toxic energy. One toxic dysfunctional. Phone conversation. Robs Sleep. – brenda johima
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Teddy Will Be OK
Teddy will be OK. I’m back at the home I am staying at after a rush visit to a veterinarian‘s office in Vernon, B.C. (I am on the road, staying at a friends, while in transition) The good news is, I started crying in the lobby at the vet’s after they treated Teddy because they said…
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Teddy at 2-Years Old
Here’s a quick photo of Teddy today, on our little jaunt around the property here where I am staying in the Okanagan for a couple+ weeks while in transition. He’s TWO years old after yesterday and we’ve rarely been apart except for during my medical/cancer treatments. I feel so fortunate to have been able to…
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Health is a Slippery Slope
health is a slippery slope. you climb up. you slide back down. to where you started from. or even further down the hill. to a place you have never been before. wondering how the heck. you got there from where you once were. – Brenda Johima
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Traveling With A 70-Pound Poodle In Tow
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…
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Help Brenda Build a New Life Without Cancer
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…
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it takes courage to share it all and to feel it all
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…
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(Not) The Light At The End of the Tunnel
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…
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The Light at the End of the Tunnel
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…