Earlier this week, I invited you to join me in my effort to raise money for the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation by sponsoring me here.
In the four days since, you’ve raised over one thousand dollars!
Huge, huge thank yous to:
The Sinanan Family
Carol Grannick
Coreen Corcoran
Rich Cantrell
Patricia Kahn
Sriram Venkatarman
Stacey MacNevin
Ebony Haywood
Joan Buzick
Tanglewood Books
Mary Antolovich
Jay Schmidt
Daniele Rossi
The Bonsall/Small Family
Joanne Lennon
Greg & Andree O’Donnell
Betti Stiff
Cher & Mo Willems
The Giassa/Whammond Family
Whitney and John Hoffman
You rock!!
What generosity will the remaining 73 days of sponsorship bring?
Andrea Ross was diagnosed with breast cancer October 6, 2009 and intends to
survive and
thrive. You can read more from Andrea
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Posted by Andrea July 22, 2010 at 3:05 pm.
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Happy Birthday, My Sweet Bayla!
And many, many happy returns.
Love,
Mom
||:xoxoxo:||
Andrea Ross was diagnosed with breast cancer October 6, 2009 and intends to
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Posted by Andrea July 16, 2010 at 4:53 am.
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PAB2010 was an unforgettable weekend.
Thought-provoking sessions, amazing food and, most importantly, passionate, intelligent, interesting, friendly, fabulous people.
If you’re creative, online or off, you’ll want to catch the full schedule of sessions as they are rolled out at PABconf.com.
In the meantime, I can’t help sharing Sylvain Grand’maison’s 5-minute Jolt, below.
Cancer crashed and auto-rebooted my life. Wiping out my routines, habits and friendships and leaving me with a fresh, if physically diminished, slate.
And the opportunity to start anew.
As Sylvain suggests, below, we can reboot our lives any time.
And we’re better off for it.
Andrea Ross was diagnosed with breast cancer October 6, 2009 and intends to
survive and
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Posted by Andrea July 12, 2010 at 8:37 am.
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| It was October 7th, 2009.
Mark and I stood waiting for an elevator at the Women’s Breast Health Centre. We’d just left our first post-diagnosis appointment.
“Nine months of treatment, Mark. It’s a pregnancy,” I ventured hopefully.
And thus began my Me-ternity.
The rocky gestation of the next me. |
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| Yesterday marked the end of that nine months.
The good news is, I didn’t even notice. |
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| Happy, happy day. |
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Andrea Ross was diagnosed with breast cancer October 6, 2009 and intends to
survive and
thrive. You can read more from Andrea
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Posted by Andrea July 8, 2010 at 3:55 pm.
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Andrea Ross was diagnosed with breast cancer October 6, 2009 and intends to
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thrive. You can read more from Andrea
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Posted by Andrea July 5, 2010 at 10:27 am.
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Today’s my first full day of freedom.
No needles. No zaps. No waiting rooms. No tests.
Looming or current.
When I discovered that lump, way back in August, I couldn’t have dreamed what lay ahead.
When I heard my diagnosis, way back in October, I couldn’t have dreamed what lay ahead.
I’ve had my share of bad and good news this year.
Sharing with you has brightened both.
Thank you for getting me through the bad.
Thank you for being and celebrating the good.
I still can’t dream what lies ahead. But with the support you’ve given me I’m striding towards it.
Thank you.
Andrea Ross was diagnosed with breast cancer October 6, 2009 and intends to
survive and
thrive. You can read more from Andrea
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Posted by Andrea June 16, 2010 at 12:35 pm.
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Andrea Ross was diagnosed with breast cancer October 6, 2009 and intends to
survive and
thrive. You can read more from Andrea
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Posted by Andrea June 15, 2010 at 1:08 pm.
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Andrea Ross was diagnosed with breast cancer October 6, 2009 and intends to
survive and
thrive. You can read more from Andrea
here.
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Andrea Ross was diagnosed with breast cancer October 6, 2009 and intends to
survive and
thrive. You can read more from Andrea
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Posted by Andrea June 14, 2010 at 2:51 pm.
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At a 40th birthday bash last night, Mark and I ran into an acquaintance from our early days of parenting.
She asked about JustOneMoreBook! and I told her we’d replaced it with a breast cancer blog.
“When did you have that?!” was her shocked response.
That beautiful, knee-jerk, past-tense reaction swelled me with glee. And it’s been echoing in my head ever since.
Cancer in the past tense.
The distant past tense.
Like a bad cold
or a fall
or a notch on my belt.
Thank you, Ashley. For being the first.
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Posted by Andrea June 13, 2010 at 1:54 pm.
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Looking forward to celebrating very, very soon!
Andrea Ross was diagnosed with breast cancer October 6, 2009 and intends to
survive and
thrive. You can read more from Andrea
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Andrea Ross was diagnosed with breast cancer October 6, 2009 and intends to
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thrive. You can read more from Andrea
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Posted by Andrea June 11, 2010 at 2:22 pm.
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Andrea Ross was diagnosed with breast cancer October 6, 2009 and intends to
survive and
thrive. You can read more from Andrea
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Posted by Andrea June 10, 2010 at 12:53 pm.
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Two months ago I sucked it up and cut yet another beloved food group from my diet.
Since then, my aching, stiff back, joints and limbs have kept me on 24×7 whine.
Last weekend, I finally clued in.
Since chemotherapy and chemo-induced menopause wreak havoc on bones, dumping dairy might not be the brightest move.
What a delicious development.
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Andrea Ross was diagnosed with breast cancer October 6, 2009 and intends to
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