To start at the beginning, read Chapter 1: Abby's Crap News - AKA My "Journey" With Cancer OK, so I definitely have breast cancer. No more loopholes, no more undone tests or incomplete test results. The MRI, thankfully, showed no cancer on the left side. And the pathology reports from the biopsy were, all things considered, positive. As I wrote in a group email to … [Read more...] about Chapter 2: Five Stages of Whatever
Breast Cancer
Chapter 1: Abby’s Crap News – AKA My “Journey” With Cancer
Remembering Before I Forget: The Beginning I have breast cancer. I found this out when my husband Chris felt a lump in my breast (thank God, thank God, I have a husband who still touches my breasts - otherwise who knows when I would have found it? I admit, red-facedly, that I do not do regular "self breast exams" as all we women have been instructed to do. I simply relied … [Read more...] about Chapter 1: Abby’s Crap News – AKA My “Journey” With Cancer
One Writer’s Story of Finding a Lump: “My Heart Sank”
I am a smart, educated woman who knows about breast cancer and the importance of early detection and knowing your family history. I watched Nana, one of the most wonderful women in my life, die at the age of 54 from the disease. The impact of her death was the focus of the first episode of the “Supernanny” that we filmed in 2008. ABC worked with local organizers to film … [Read more...] about One Writer’s Story of Finding a Lump: “My Heart Sank”
Finding A Lump In My Breast: One Year Later
Last year I offered to have a photographer take photos (tasteful ones) as I had a mammogram. Having had millions of people see my life on the reality show “Supernanny” in both the first episode we filmed and then in the 100th special episode we filmed as “America’s Most Memorable Family”, I am no longer camera shy. I was writing a story for Breast Cancer Awareness Month to … [Read more...] about Finding A Lump In My Breast: One Year Later
Chapter 5: Hair Loss – Breast Cancer
To start at the beginning, read Chapter 1: Abby's Crap News - AKA My "Journey" With Cancer When it comes to losing one's hair, there is a huge difference between theoretical and actual - and this may sound totally sexist, but I think it's much worse if you're a woman. (Except maybe if you're Ozzy Osbourne or Russell Brand.) Chemotherapy = hair loss. We all know this, … [Read more...] about Chapter 5: Hair Loss – Breast Cancer