This is a very personal post for me. I’m usually a very private person, but sometimes information needs to be shared, to help others, educate, and increase awareness. I hope I can do just that with this story. For those of you that haven’t seen all of my previous posts, earlier I shared with you the heartbreaking story of my mother’s fight against ovarian cancer. She fought her battles courageously, but the cancer was strong and the cancer was advanced. She lost her fight two years after being diagnosed. Starting in August…
Did you know that September is ovarian cancer awareness month? There is so much information and promotion of breast cancer awareness in October, that it sheds light on the discrepancy of information that’s out there on ovarian cancer. Ovarian cancer is a silent killer. It creeps up on its victims, invades the body, and spreads even before any symptoms are obvious. My mother died from ovarian cancer when she was 58. She was diagnosed at 56 with stage IIIc ovarian cancer. She started treatment with a very extensive abdominal surgery to remove most of her…
