This year, September 22 marks the official start of Fall. Along with cooler temperatures, changing leaves, football games and warm apple cider can come the flu. Each year, millions of people get sick, hundreds of thousands are hospitalized and thousands die from the flu. As a result, the Centers for...
Infection Alert! What Cancer Patients Need to Know…
Cancer and chemotherapy can weaken your body’s immune system and it’s ability to protect itself from infection. Any type of infection, even a minor one, can become serious quickly. In fact, one out of every 10 cancer patients who receive chemotherapy get an infection that requires a hospital visit....
The name says it all… “Hope Connections for Cancer Support”
Let’s face it… cancer is a life-changing disease that has the potential to wreak havoc on anyone it touches- patient, caregiver, family & even close friends. What is Hope Connections for Cancer Support? If you live in the greater Washington DC area, check out Hope Connections for Cancer Support – they...
Suggestions for Living with Cancer
This guest post was written by Valerie Johnston of Healthline. Healthline is a medical search engine that provides trusted health information, free tools, news and doctor-reviewed resources that encourage a healthy living. Valerie is a health and fitness writer from East Texas and has ambitions of one day running a...
FREE Fertility Medications for Female Cancer Patients
If you are a woman of reproductive age & a US citizen who has received a new cancer diagnosis and wish to undergo fertility preservation PRIOR to the start of cancer treatment, you can now receive certain FREE fertility medications. Walgreens and Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. are collaborating to provide free access...
Tips for Cleaning Fruits & Veggies
In recent years, the United States has had several large outbreaks of illness caused by contaminated fruits and vegetables — including spinach, tomatoes, lettuce and most recently cantaloupe. Federal health officials estimate that nearly 48 million people are sickened each year by food contaminated with harmful germs....
Musicians On Call
This is seriously AMAZING…. I just learned of a super cool organization called Musicians On Call. Studies have shown that music has a direct, healing effect on people…. music can lower blood pressure, help with pain management, reduce stress, anxiety & depression, assist Alzheimer’s patients in recalling the past,...
ISOL & the Big C
ISOL means In Search of Love The Big C unfortunately means CANCER not climax I just read an amazing blog post on CrazySexyLife (one of my favorite sites on cancer & wellness) called Chemo Courtship. Guest blogger Catherine Phillips writes about how she, single mother of 2 with cancer, approached dating. Yes,...
