by Trish Vickery | Nov 26, 2025 | Mind & Body, Mind & Body Vol 2, Issue 3
BOGO! Buy one, get one free! Who doesn’t love a bonus—except when the bonus is lymphedema. For many of us with inflammatory breast cancer (IBC), lymphedema (LE) becomes the unwelcome “extra,” a lifelong condition without a cure. Not exactly a great deal. Twelve years...
by Joanna Walters | May 28, 2025 | Family Vol 2 Issue 2, Mind & Body Vol 2, Issue 2
It had been only two hours since my midwife appointment, where I had asked about the strange rash and lump that had appeared. I was with a primary care physician being introduced to inflammatory breast cancer, a distant foreign concept. I had never heard of breast...
by Colleen | Dec 1, 2024 | Featured, Featured Volume 1, Issue 4, Mind & Body, Mind & Body Volume 1, Issue 4
A fellow IBC sister posted this picture on Facebook and I’ve stolen it because it is so true. This is one of the many things I find so surprising about my feelings. I trust God and I’m angry I look back over the years of my life and see numerous times when...
by Martha Van Dam | Dec 1, 2024 | Mind & Body Volume 1, Issue 4
by Martha Van Dam I definitely remember, that when I first was diagnosed with IBC, laughter was the last thing on my mind. The fear, anxiety and stress was so overwhelmingly crushing that it hung a dark cloud over every aspect of my life. But as time wore on and I...
by Natalie Raines | Dec 1, 2024 | Hope Stories Volume 1, Issue 4, Mind & Body Volume 1, Issue 4
I’d like to equate my life’s journey to a sailing yacht on a great sea. I charted my course and set sail a long time ago. I have run into rough seas on occasion and adjusted my sails or altered my course to find calmer waters. My sailing yacht was 57...
by Kelly Kelbel | Dec 1, 2024 | Mind & Body Volume 1, Issue 4
This is an excerpt from Chemo Sessions, Infusion Post 5: Body Betrayal, Body Forgiveness by Kelly Kelbel Hi Y’all, When you were diagnosed, were you like what the actual fuck? When I was first diagnosed, I was devastated. And I was pissed. Why was this...
