Showing posts with label self-image during cancer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label self-image during cancer. Show all posts

Saturday, July 27, 2013

New HuffPost Blog Post: Tips for Building a Great Hat Collection After Chemo

My new post is now live on the HuffPost Blog. Hopefully the tips are helpful for cancer patients who are now dealing with the bummer side effect of hair loss. Chemo is a great thing. As many patients are reminded, the fact that the rapidly-multiplying hair cells are destroyed means that the chemo is doing its job on other fast-dividing cells (i.e., cancer). Still, the day the hair falls out is a tough one for so many of us. I'm hoping this will be useful for at least a few patients, or their friends who want to do something to help

Chemo Style: A Cancer Patient's Tips for Building a Great Hat Collection

Saturday, June 29, 2013

Feature Story in (201) Health

The below story appeared in the 2013 Edition of (201) Health (from the publishers of (201) Magazine.) The photographs were taken by Magique Studios. I plan to write something for HuffPost so won't delve into it here, but in short: the story was a final nod to my hat collection, which helped me to feel better on the outside while I was feeling so bad on the inside.