When I was first diagnosed with cancer, I remembered walking into the oncologist office thinking I had a plan. I would have a bilateral mastectomy and that’s it. Life would be back to almost normal, just sans my breasts. However, my oncologist told me at that time that she had a different plan that required me to go through chemotherapy, radiation and surgery.

A little reflection on my 6 days in the hospital. I have never been hospitalized as an adult. My last admission was when I was in middle school or even elementary school when I caught the Dengue Fever. It was definitely a wakeup call to shift course quickly, both in the ways of how I’ve been healing from cancer and how I’ve been dealing with my problems on earth…

Do you know that your breath holds to key to lymphatic flow? I was taught as a new therapist in my lymphedema training that abdominal breathing can help to create a suction effect that jumpstarts your lymphatic flow. I (just being honest here) never truly believed or understood that until 2019 when I saw it with my own eyes during an ICG near infra red imaging study….