health is a slippery slope. you climb up. you slide back down. to where you started from. or even further down the hill. to a place you have never been before. wondering how the heck. you got there from where you once were. – Brenda Johima
I’m in a major transition. Recovering from cancer while in a housing transition. It’s a bit much. Overwhelming and stressful, but Teddy makes it more FUN. Wherever I go, my dog Teddy goes. We are a team. Is it easy traveling with a 70-pound standard poodle in tow? While staying at other peoples homes and…
Today I am announcing a NEW fundraising campaign, Help Brenda Johima Build A New Life Without Cancer. One special friend set it all up for me, did the writing and everything. I am grateful. Several online friends had suggested that I put up a new fundraising page, since the last fundraiser, A Helping Hand for Brenda, ended…
I have not posted for a long long time. I have been tired. Very tired. Physically, mentally and emotionally exhausted. However, I do want to keep sharing here on this journal/blog and to start sharing again, starting right now. So I will share with you, a secret Facebook post from today: *** It takes COURAGE to share…
In my last blog post I wrote about The Light At The End of the Tunnel and I thought that I was going to see it on my last trip to Victoria to the BC Cancer Agency. I made the 4-hour trip on my own, in traffic, eager to hear what I thought I was going to hear…
Thank you for your financial donations! You all helped save my life, and be able to keep my beloved standard poodle, Teddy. Please Accept Our Gratitude With LOVE, Dr. T. (Teddy) and Brenda Johima
I can’t believe it’s been 4 months today, since my last chemotherapy treatment. Yay! And it’s been 10 weeks since I competed radiation treatments. Yay! 9 months since I got my official diagnosis of breast cancer. And 13 months since I was in the walk-in clinic showing the doctor the lump I’d found in my…