Category: Miscellaneous
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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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Thank YOU for Your Donations!
Thank you for your financial donations! You all helped save my life, and be able to keep my beloved standard poodle, Teddy. Please Accept Our Gratitude With LOVE, Dr. T. (Teddy) and Brenda Johima
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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…
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changed for the better
Cancer was hard. There’s one thing that I want to hang onto >> how it changed me for the better.
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. i have noticed . that when i am open .
i have noticed that when i am open and share my story out in public somewhere anywhere the first thing people say “i lost my Dad a few months ago” or “i just lost my Mom to cancer last year” or something like that it doesn’t make me sad i opened a door for them…
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toenails and fingernails
Just gotta say, that what chemotherapy does to your toenails and fingernails is bizarre scary. Takes forever to get back to normal it seems. — brenda johima
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what was it like? cancer having cancer
what was it like? cancer having cancer it was like a storm that would keep coming back over and over leaving you drowning and gasping for air grabbing for life jackets hoping to float with head above water survive just survive keep breathing just breathe on top of this soil” — brenda johima
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pretending that i have hair
i had a tub put shampoo on my fuzzy top scrubbed my scalp then put a turban-style-towel on top of my head i was all cozy all the while pretending that i have hair” — brenda johima