by Maggie Van Duyn | Sep 29, 2017 | Breast Cancer, Clinical Trial, Diagnosis, Doctors, Maggie Card, Medication, Metastatic Disease
Now is the time to soften. I came to this conclusion as I lay on the mat in the first yoga class I had taken in a million years. I had been meaning to try a class at SoulShine Power Yoga, a Maggie’s Brightside Sponsor, for a while now, but as luck would have it, I...
by Maggie Van Duyn | Aug 8, 2016 | Breast Cancer, Cancer, Diagnosis, Metastatic Disease, Stage IV
I’ve been in a funk lately. I have this pit in my stomach that just won’t go away. At first I thought it was because I published a blog post about racism and my support of the Black Lives Matter movement. The post was live for about 4 days and invoked a...
by Maggie Van Duyn | Jul 17, 2016 | Cancer, Diagnosis, Environmental Factors
Background: I work for the Department for Children and Families and we have been, until April of this year, temporarily located at the Global Foundries/IBM Site. This week we got this email: All, Please read this important message from Commissioner Chen! To staff who...
by Maggie Van Duyn | Mar 25, 2016 | Cancer, Diagnosis, Metastatic Disease, Stage IV
Let’s talk about Metastatic Disease. I look healthy. I look better than I did a few months ago. Maybe it’s that my hair is growing back. Maybe it’s that I’m not on any Chemotherapies right now. Maybe it’s from the California sun. Whatever...
by Maggie Van Duyn | Mar 8, 2016 | anger, Cancer, Diagnosis, Doctors
Dear Primary Care Physician, I’ve been meaning to write you for a while. I first had the urge to reach out in November of 2014 when I arrived home from the hospital after giving birth to a baby that wasn’t even mine, as I had been a gestational surrogate...
by Maggie Van Duyn | Mar 2, 2016 | #maggiesbrightside, Cancer, Diagnosis, Oophorectomy, surgery
Oh-Hey there! Did ya miss me? I was on vacation pretending I don’t have cancer. It was awesome and I loved it. But now I’m back. And don’t think for one second that cancer didn’t try and bother me while I was gone. It did. In the form of some...
