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Sephora Stands – Brave Beauty Classes 

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Look Good Feel Better

Offering workshops to learn hair, makeup and skin care techniques for women during or after treatment.

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Hey! I’m Kim!

9Hey! My name is Kim and I live on Vancouver Island, BC. Shortly after my 34th birthday, I was diagnosed with ER/PR+ Her2- stage 2b breast cancer. I underwent a lumpectomy, followed by 8 rounds of dose dense AC+T chemo, and 28 treatments of radiation. Read more

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Happy Galentines Day to all my beautiful friends and breasties❤. . Throwing it back to this hilarious photo, hamming it up at last year's @youngsurvivalcoalition Summit. I don't know what we were laughing at but it must've been good😂 . I just booked my trip to the next YSC Summit in LA March 6-8 and can't wait to meet everyone there! Who's all coming this year?
Countdown is on. 5 weeks til surgery! . This wasn't the path I wanted to go down. But Henry keeps coming back like a stage 5 clinger despite being aspirated, getting a drain placed, and laying low the last 3 months. And I've stumped my doctors as to why this has come back 2.5 years post #latflap breast reconstruction surgery. . So onto surgery on March 13th to remove the hematoma and find out what's going on in there. I've lost count of the amount of doctors and nurses who've said they've never seen this before. But you know, 🦄 status over here. . It's been challenging as a young woman with breast cancer and not knowing long term side effects of treatments and surgeries. A lot of us forming the research data going forward. So as frustrating as this is today, I hope in the end it will help someone who's dealing with their own Henry or The Rock one day.
This picture was taken three years ago. Six months of intense treatments behind me and yet a world of unknowns ahead of me. . I remember that day celebrating the end of chemo, the last few sparse hairs clinging to my body. I was tired, worn out, and exhausted. But so damn happy to be finished treatment. . You would never know when you look at me today that I was diagnosed with breast cancer at 34 years old. That I spent the last 3.5 years fighting my hardest through chemo, radiation, surgeries and scans and having to advocate for myself through it all. . You would never know that I still sit here today dealing with the aftermath of it all. Fatigue, insomnia, the fear of recurrence, the sharp sting I feel every time I hear that another person has been taken by cancer. . You would never know that I'm reminded of it every time I look in the mirror. The scars across my body, my breasts, the new lump growing on my back, another looming surgery... . But I'm also reminded of my strength, my resilience, and my courage to continue on. There are days where I have it all together and others that I may fall. Trying to navigate through what feels like an invisible illness sometimes. And that's okay. . Today on #WorldCancerDay, I'm reminded that I am one. I am a survivor. I am a thriver and I will continue to use my voice as a platform for change, to educate, to empower people, and to give hope to the ones that have given hope to me when I needed it the most. #IAmAndIWill #YouWouldNeverKnow
Pink hair don't care! . Bright start to a new week✨ #bringiton
I'm struggling. . There I said it. I reached my breaking point. Found myself crumbling to pieces on my way home yesterday, unable to stop the tears from falling. The weeks of frustration finally coming to a head. . I had to advocate hard for myself these past few weeks. Push for myself to be seen. Fight for myself to be heard. A reminder of how important it is to be persistent and to speak up. Because after being in the system the last 3.5 years, I've come to realize that the only one who's going to advocate hardest for me is me. . Today is also my 3 month anniversary with Henry. Our relationship finally coming to an end, ironically, on Friday the 13th of all times. The same day I received my diagnosis. It's just a lot of shit that's been piling up lately, one on top of another. I know I'll be okay. I'm just having a really hard time right now.
He's baaaaacccckkkk!!! . While I was busy celebrating the end of our relationship, Henry was conjuring up some sneaky plans to make his way back in there. Two days after our break up, he'd found his in and refused to let go. . Fast forward to Monday morning when the scab from my drain decided to open up leaving me at high risk for infection. A trip to urgent care and a call to my plastic surgeon later, I was getting an urgent referral sent in for an MRI. . So now I wait with mixed emotions. The thought of a scan both somewhat terrifying but relieving to know what might be going on. And the frustration of another possible surgery looming over my head. Henry can you take the hint already and just realize it's not you, it's me okay? #byehenry
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