by Martha Brettschneider | Apr 10, 2013 | Breast Cancer, Feng Shui/Clutter Clearing, Life Lessons, Meditation, Mindful Gardening, Mindfulness, Most Popular Posts
Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace. ~ May Sarton Spring barreled into town this past weekend like a sailor on shore leave. It was a shock to...
by Martha Brettschneider | Oct 8, 2012 | Breast Cancer, Fitness, Life Lessons, Motivation
“My feeling is that any day I am too busy to run is a day that I am too busy.” — John Bryant Personal transformation is a jokester. It sneaks up and bites you on the butt when you least expect it. This happened to me this weekend on a hotel balcony...
by Martha Brettschneider | Oct 4, 2012 | Breast Cancer, Life Lessons
When I posted my last piece, “Mastectomy Day”, it wasn’t on my radar screen that October is National Breast Cancer Awareness month. I had had another blog topic in mind, but was suddenly compelled to write about my pre-surgery experience. I got...
by Martha Brettschneider | Sep 30, 2012 | Breast Cancer
Each year, roughly 50,000 breast cancer patients in the United States undergo mastectomy (total removal of the breast).* Revisiting the journals I kept at the time of my own breast amputation three years ago, I wonder whether my experience was typical. Do you know...
by Martha Brettschneider | Sep 10, 2012 | Breast Cancer
Below is another excerpt from my book in progress, Feng Shui Animal House: Raking Sand in the Midst of the Chaos. It follows having the radiologist tell me that she was concerned about my follow-up mammogram results (click here to read about that). In my family, I am...
by Martha Brettschneider | Aug 25, 2012 | Breast Cancer
“Dear Ms. Brettschneider: Your mammogram performed on February 10, 2009 is considered incomplete. In order to complete the evaluation, we need additional imaging studies.” I read those lines and didn’t think twice about it. I had had mammograms...
