As they grow up, children are supposed to be helpful to their parents, and in particular sons to their mothers. I have tried to be as helpful as I can, at a distance, to my mom who lives in Germany. Although it is not for me to judge, I hope that …
Our story has been picked up on several other sites: In the US by the Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/27/married-couple-both-diagnosed-breast… In the UK by the Daily Mail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2239234/…
I didn’t grow up with Thanksgiving, being German and spending much of my youth in England. There were harvest festivals of course although my family did not observe these ancient celebrations of thanks for bringing in the food for the year. I have…
The health reporter for the local ABC affiliate, KTRK, Christi Myers told our story on Channel 13 yesterday. She had come by on Monday to do an interview with Irene and me about the coincidence of being diagnosed at the same age with the same stag…
I know I haven’t been writing as much this past week than before, but it is due to a combination of the oncoming holidays with their great family activities, being busy at work, feeling a bit tired some of the time and now committing to creating t…
One of the things that people have mentioned to me is that there is no single, go-to resource for information about male breast cancer. There are of course many such resources for women, but the questions that are specific for men are not well add…
Today, just a personal update. I met with my oncologist yesterday, for the regular monthly checkup to see how things are going. Then I did my taxol #5, which was uneventful. I even managed a brief nap between the blood pressure cuff automatically …
Entering a World of Pink 