Here’s a little background on me and why I FINALLY decided to start this blog.  I needed a platform to reach out to other women who are 50ish and still trying to figure it all out through multiple medical setbacks. I have struggled with depression and anxiety most of my life and at times it has been completely debilitating.  I am a two-time Breast Cancer survivor; first diagnosed in 10/2006 when my daughter was only one and a half years old and again in 6/2010 just about the time she was due to start Kindergarten.  I have had close to 20 surgeries, extensive toxic chemotherapy treatments (14 rounds to be exact), 25 rounds of radiation, a mastectomy and tram-flap breast reconstructive surgery. Although I currently have no visible disease; I am on a 3-week infusion rotation of a drug called Herceptin to keep any returning cancer cells at bay.  I will continue with this regimen indefinitely; which I hope proves to be a very long time.  In Nov of 2017 I had a minor stroke due to my left carotid artery being completely (100%) blocked.  The chemo alone had wreaked havoc on my body, but the radiation reduced my left neck area to leather and my internal artery was hardened to scar tissue, rendering it useless for feeding blood and oxygen to my brain.