by Maggie Bruehl | Mar 11, 2024 | Cancer
Writing a friend or journaling has many benefits when facing stressful times. I know for some, it is difficult. Flashbacks of grade school writing exercises of 5-minute speed drills paralyze the pen. The fear of spelling errors, incorrect functions, and...
by Maggie Bruehl | Mar 4, 2024 | Cancer
I recently received an email from a friend who has a 1 ½ inch tumor in the back of her brain. They think it is benign but still want to do surgery. She has opted to wait and see if it grows since the recovery time would be substantial and the quality of life not...
by Maggie Bruehl | Feb 26, 2024 | Cancer
This is something I wrote a few months ago, remembering back to a critical time in my cancer journey: Few of us ever have the experience of hanging between life and death. We don’t want to. We want to feel as if we will live forever and never have to see death. And...
by Maggie Bruehl | Feb 19, 2024 | Cancer
Wouldn’t you know, just about the time you think you are free from what ails you, you are not! For some, it’s a relapse of cancer or MS or something really serious. For me, it’s just been this nasty cold/Covid/now back to the cold-type thing. And it...
by Maggie Bruehl | Feb 13, 2024 | Cancer
I’ve done my time in the Covid lockup and am feeling better. I’ve been ill most of January and early February. As each wave hit, I took it in with grace, knowing there was little I could do to fight it. It’s just been good to sit on our back porch,...
