Every Day Should Be Pinktober
What Pinktober doesn’t tell you is that cancer is a part of your life-even when you’re done.
Author Abby Stern
Abby Stern
I am Mom to two, wife to one. I've been dealt a few crappy cards (including breast cancer twice and a stint in the NICU with a premature son.) However, I choose to blog about my life so I can complain openly and freely. I want to be a writer when I grow up.
Surviving Breast Cancer
It really doesn’t matter how long you have been a “survivor”. Cancer is cancer.
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Ugh It’s Father’s Day Again
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Four Days in the Dark…Again
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Parkland
Last week, my 17-year-old daughter said to me “Mom, why don’t you write something on your blog about the Parkland shooting?” I had thought about it…