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My Breast Choice
Sheila Taheri, Diane Taheri, Julianna Lee
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Find yourself – Maria did!
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself
helping others.” – Mahatma Ghandi
Let me tell you about my friend Maria. She had breast cancer just like I did. Why? We ask ourselves this at the time of diagnosis and when we are going through our …
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Dr. Nicholas Haddock says Smoking can impact your Surgical Results
Let’s face it, sometimes people fudge the facts about weight or age. 
Well, Dr. Nicholas T. Haddock, Plastic Surgeon at UT Southwestern Medical Center, says to be honest with your doctor when discussing habits such as smoking. Dr. Haddock reminds us that smoking can affect your healing after surgery …
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Guided Meditation — A Gift for the New Year
Here is our gift to you for the new year, a Guided Meditation. Have you ever wanted to meditate but don’t know how? It is a form of visualization, a place where you find complete relaxation. Some need guidance to get to this place. Kathy L Platt, 
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Meditation is a Healing Modality
According to Kathy Platt, M
S, HHP, Holistic Healer, meditation can be a way to calm and even cure your body. There are many things that affect our ability to function, most being rooted in fear or another emotion. You may experience anxiety, muscle …
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Janie’s Breast Adventure – Part 4 Chemo taketh, but Wigs giveth!
Now if you look closely at the pictures in the collage, I must admit, some are rather scary. In the last post, we saw that shaving your head was taking control. You manage …
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Chemo: Will you dance in the rain?
Let me explain, I’ll get around to the dancing in the rain part. Janie started her chemo as any brave soldier would. But there are time, there will be times when you panic. Janie’s moment was when she took her pony tail out …
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Janie’s Breast Adventure – Part 2
Look at them, aren’t they beautiful! Nobody knows what the future holds when they get married. For better or for worse is what we say. Janie is a 7-year survivor living in Louisiana. She is married and has a teenage daughter. How did her …
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Janie’s Breast Adventure, Part I
Meet Janie! She’s my niece (by marriage) and she’s a breast cancer survivor … I would have to say the BEST breast cancer survivor! Let me tell you why I’m introducing you and why I named this blog what I did. …
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I changed what I eat, during and after cancer
While going through my cancer treatments and surgeries, I learned that it is easy to run down very quickly. In my pre- and post-op instructions from Dr. Nicholas Haddock, it talked about …
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Convenience or Cancer?
It’s happened to most of us, right? We are somewhere and we need both hands. No place to put our cell phone, but wait, the bra is the perfect place to stash it. It won’t move, we can hear it if …
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