15
JUL
2015

From A Heart Attack At 38 to Advocacy

A heart attack was my lemon. Advocacy is my lemonade. On June 17, 2014, at age 38, I suffered a near fatal, massive heart attack while recovering from emergency gall bladder surgery in the hospital. I had an 80% blockage in the widow-maker, which had burst and collapsed the...
16
JAN
2015

From Stage 3b Breast Cancer To Not Sweating the Small Stuff

Breast cancer was my lemon. My life and not allowing the little things to bring me down is my lemonade. In Fall of 2010, at age 42, I went to my scheduled mammogram appointment. The technician said there were three tiny spots in my left breast but they didn’t look like...
15
JAN
2015

From Surviving Cancer Twice to Writing Tips and Tales for a Clean Lifestyle

Metastatic cancer was my lemon. Embracing and writing about a clean lifestyle is my lemonade. I was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 31. It came out of left field. There was no family history, and no side effects or signs other than a lump. So my husband told me to go get “one...