Author: brendawrites

  • Chemotherapy Number Three!

    I am psyching myself up for chemotherapy number three! It’s coming up this Thursday, September 4th, at 8:30 A.M. at the BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver Island Centre. Please do send me some love and positive vibes! I have come a long way, even in being able to ask you straight up, for your prayers and well wishes,…

  • 4 AM

    Good Morning, Lately I have been waking up at 4 AM. It just is. There is no point in resisting it, I just go with it. I had great intentions when I first started this blog, and things have not gone as planned, as one might expect with breast cancer. A lot of things do…

  • resting

    resting it seems like all i do these days is rest love, brenda

  • sensors in our hair

    I think that we must have sensors in our hair because since I have become bald I keep banging my head on things, corners, on and on. Weird. Maybe it’s the (cancer) drugs but it is only my head. Klutz cells have grown in place of hair. LOL. Love, Brenda

  • Compassionate Accent Inns Victoria

    Compassionate Accent Inns Victoria

    I would like to thank Accent Inns in Victoria, B.C. for making my first stay so very comfortable. I stayed at Accent Inns Victoria during my first chemotherapy treatment at the BC Cancer Agency Vancouver Island Centre. This is a pet friendly hotel and I can highly recommend it. Staff were efficient, super friendly and professional at every point…

  • How to Catch Up When You Can’t Catch Up

    Good morning! As one who prides myself on punctuality and in past, applauded myself for never missing deadlines … breast cancer has turned all of that (perfectionism and incredibly high standards) on its head and right upside down. I am missing deadlines and I am late and I am not getting things done very quickly,…

  • Swimming!! I went swimming!!

    Swimming!! I went swimming and floating in the ocean!! The last paragraph will explain why I’m over the top happy! H E A V E N. Bliss. Aaaahhhh. I was in there for a LONG time. The water is very shallow, as Fanny Bay is famous worldwide for oysters. It’s a heavenly warm swimming spot…

  • a super simple walking meditation you can do anywhere

    It takes as long as it takes. And in this case, to get me back to doing my walking meditations that I did daily, for years and years. You know, it was one of those things that you think about everyday and that you want to do, and and are going to do, but just…

  • who is this imposter?

    who is this imposter? visiting my body unwelcome guest he brought damaged goods as gifts that never let you forget who you used to be he crawls out from the rubble presenting as me to the public who just sees surface deep but not the unthinkable pain crushing dizzying writhing grimacing never-ending always shifting fireworks…

  • cancer bone pain is a 15 out of 10

    popping in for a quick update. it has been the day from hell physically. the bone pain today was a 15 out of 10 on the pain scale. unbearable. disabling. all i could do is lie down and writhe around, try to shift or get up and stretch and walk around the house, sit in…