Blog Entries by Marisa Lee
My Grieving Process: Champagne, Pearls, and Retail Therapy
Last year I jokingly suggested to my mother that she get stoned for the first time in her life. She had been suffering in pain for years, battling a combination of Multiple Sclerosis and breast cancer, and that was the best option I had to offer. I clearly had no...
Breast Cancer: The Ones Left Behind
Posted October 16, 2008 | 03:01 PM (EST)
There is nothing special or unique about death or, even more specifically, death by breast cancer. Every 13 minutes another woman is lost to this disease and this year more than 40,000 women have died from breast cancer in the United States alone. During the month of October we are...
Battling Breast Cancer: A Personal Agenda
Posted May 8, 2008 | 09:27 AM (EST)
In May 2005, just days before from my college graduation, I learned that my mother, who had struggled with Multiple Sclerosis for nine years, was diagnosed with stage IV metastatic breast cancer. The facts about her condition were straightforward: manageable but not curable. Essentially, it was a death sentence. No...
Posted February 26, 2009 | 08:53 AM (EST)