We’ve Been there
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Coexisting With Cancer
Cancer is not a ‘journey’ nor a ‘gift’ nor did it give me a heightened sense of priorities. It is…
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Finding Support While In The Darkest Of Places
I’ve known for 10 years, since the age of 23, that I was a BRCA2 carrier. Choices needed to be…
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Giving Back to Sharsheret
Breast cancer has been in my family since my mother’s diagnosis in 2002. I have three sisters and a brother…
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Someone Who Was In My Shoes
When Sharsheret asked me to speak, I jumped at the opportunity. I was happy to be able to give back…
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Reflections Of An OR Nurse
Nursing was something I never considered. When my mother-in-law was diagnosed with breast cancer in the 1970s, I wasn’t a…
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The Little, Lucky Things
This blog is excerpted from Leslie’s Dvar Torah (speech) at a Sharsheret Pink Shabbat in Raleigh, NC For those who…
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How I Got it Before it Got Me
My mother was a carrier of the BRCA gene mutation and was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of…
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Breast Cancer and My Spiritual Journey
I went to Shabbat services this morning for the first time in months. My long absence wasn’t an intentional decision.…
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Recent College Graduate to Cancer Patient
I was just like you. I sat in the very same chairs you are sitting in right now. I listened…
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The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
This morning I took the step of moving forward with my efforts as a Sharsheret volunteer. I was awed at…
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A Step In The Right Direction
“I bet they find a cure tomorrow!” my mother said, then shook her head as her eyes filled with tears.…
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Staying Strong
December 11, 2015 marked 6 years since I was diagnosed with Stage 2b Triple Negative breast cancer. I am dancing…
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The Tears I Shed
When I was diagnosed about two and a half years ago, it came as a total shock. I had exercised…
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A New Chapter
You may be surprised to learn that most women do not know their breast density. I started getting mammograms in…
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Not The Story You Would Expect
Excerpted from Deborah’s Presentation at Emerson College AEPhi’s Ribbon on the Runway Event, April 2015 My story is not what…
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Three Was Always My Favorite Number
I was born on the 3rd of October. Every member of my family was born on a day that could…
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My Survivorship Story
My Sharsheret Story is actually two stories that quickly entwined into one. I was diagnosed with stage two, invasive ductal…
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Adopting a Patient Perspective
When Karin Charnoff-Katz, MD, was diagnosed with breast cancer, she entered the patient experience and left a changed physician. On…
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Speaking About the Unspoken Reality of Cancer
My grandmother died in 1995 after a long battle with breast cancer. In all of the years of her illness,…
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My Cancer Journey Led Me To Sharsheret
Among my many identities, I am a Jew and I am a cancer survivor. The intersection of these two roles…
