Review: P.J. Hamel’s Blog

P.J. Hamel is a writer, mother, wife, volunteer, and breast cancer survivor. She joins the breast cancer community bringing her stories, wisdom and optimism.

P.J. has been writing ever since she learned how to shape letters by copying the big A-B-C chart marching across the top of the blackboard in Mrs. Gardner’s first grade classroom.  

When P.J. was a child she wrote fairy tales, poems and published a junior high underground newspaper. In college she wrote for the school paper.  Since being in the working world, P.J. has never earned her living any other way but by writing.

She is very pleased to turn her hand to blogging, particularly blogging about breast cancer, and how it intersects with a woman’s life, turning it upside down and inside out before (hopefully) retreating into a dark dead-end at the end of some obscure capillary trail, never to return… hopefully.

Please visit P.J. Hamel’s blog by clicking here and let us know what you think of it by adding a comment below. 



Review: Jill’s Cancer Blog

On September 26, 2005 Jill was diagnosed with breast cancer.  During her treatment the idea came to blog about her life and to start Blog For A Cure. The site was launched in August, 2006.

Now that she has recovered she hopes to make it easier for a few people by creating this network of cancer survivors through blogging.

Head over to Jill’s blog learn about her journey, see her photos and learn about cancer related events on Jill’s calendar.

We would be interested for you to share your thoughts with other CancerDirectory.com readers by adding a comment below.

Please visit Jill at: Jill’s Cancer Blog

Review: Yuyu’s Cancer Diary

Yuyu is 34 yrs old and lives in Los Angeles with her cat, Mercedes, who she’s been with for more than 12 years. Although she doesn’t have any kids yet, she would love to have them someday. Yuyu works as a child psychotherapist. 

Yuyu considered herself living her life freely and independently ever since coming to this country when she was 16. She is an outdoor kind a gal, loves camping, fishing, going to the beach, picnics, basically anything to do with nature. She also has a big love for food and music.

Until her diagnosis she been fairly healthy but used to be a smoker(for over 10 years). Yuyu was just diagnosed with Invasive Ductal Carcinoma on August 12, 2008.

Yuyu had her first chemotherapy treatment on September 5, 2008  and some days are very difficult for her, yet each day she shares with us her courage and inspiration.  

Please support Yuyu by visiting her at: Yuyu’s Cancer Diary

Two hands…

Jeannette was diagnosed with breast cancer when she was 39. The tag line of her blogs tells it all:

One body, one soul, one heart, one fight… join me on my journey.

Jeannette is a cancer survivor and has a lot of interesting, thoughtful and heartfelt things to share to anyone whose life is affected by cancer.

She has many important stories to tell about her battles with cancer and demostrates an amazing spirit as she supports friends and family and about the normal ups and downs of life. She is strong advocate of everything related to funding cancer research and finding a cure for cancer.

We highly recommend heading over to Jeannette’s blog. Please share your thoughts of her blog with other CancerDirectory.com readers by adding a comment blow.

Life with Breast Cancer

Kathy-Ellen Kups posts pretty frequently about her daily experiences while battling breast cancer. She is extremely thoughtful and determined and has a lot to say about many subjects, both related and unrelated to cancer. Her stories are extremely inspirational and we wish her much luck at she battles her disease.

A recent post chronicles the terrible experiences of her friend who was denied a much needed MRI by his health insurance company. In another blog post she explains how impressed she has become with Hillary Clinton and theorizes how she “would have been the commander of the final battle that beat cancer if she became President of the United States.” Pretty heady stuff.

Please head over to Kathy-Ellen’s blog and join us in wishing her only the best. She has a great blog and we highly recommend it!