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My uncensored life through cancer

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Sephora Stands – Brave Beauty Classes 

Click on link to find local beauty classes near you

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

Recent Posts

  • Finding Support and Community with the new Breast Cancer Healthline App
  • Hi Ho back to work I go
  • An Open Letter to My Body
  • One year foobiversary
  • Where I stand

Follow me on Instagram @kangell82

Insomnia - check✔ Brain fog - check✔Squeezing in a run at lunch to clear my head and train for my first 10k next month - double check✔✔Heading back to work has been challenging and trying to find time to move and get through the side effects of treatments. But seeing people like @jenhods and @ckreiswirth recently complete the NYC marathon has me motivated to keep pushing forward. I can do this💪
Back on the mat today and getting this old body stretched out! Some days I feel like an 80 year old talking about all my aches and pains👵🏼But seriously after the surgeries, the hormone therapy meds and returning to work full time, I'm really starting to feel it. I've been so tight in my back and chest ever since having a mastectomy and latissimus dorsi flap reconstruction over a year ago and my shoulder's never felt the same. Despite the setbacks though, yoga's been one of the things that's helped me get some of my range of motion back and find some relief through the discomfort and pain. What's helped for you?
Going through a cancer diagnosis can be very isolating. There are times where I've felt so lonely through my diagnosis. Scared and uncertain of what the future holds. Not knowing what to expect or if what I was feeling was normal. . When I was first diagnosed, I scoured the Internet desperately trying to find other young women who were going through this. I wanted to know what it was like to lose my hair, my breasts and my ability to have children. The way my body would change going through early menopause and how to navigate life after cancer. I wanted to know that I wasn't alone. . I wish I had to someone to talk to in those moments. To know there were other women out there who knew exactly what I was going through. That's why I'm excited to partner up with @healthline over the next month on their free app called Breast Cancer Healthline which provides those diagnosed with breast cancer a safe space to connect with others and find lots of great information and resources in one spot. . Check out my latest blog post to find out more details on the free app and or download at https://go.onelink.me/faaH/d46614a . Looking forward to connecting with you all soon!
This picture popped up in my memories last night. Two years ago, smiling and celebrating the end of chemotherapy treatments. I had lost almost every hair on my body at this point, my clothes hanging loosely on me as I struggled to keep my weight from dropping, and most days barely mustering the energy to get out of bed. But I was so happy to be done with what felt like the hardest part of treatment. The nausea, the pain, the fatigue finally coming to an end. I didn't know the challenges I would face ahead though. That it'd be hard. That the mental game was just as strong and difficult as the physical one. But when I see this smile, it reminds me how brave I am. That I can get through anything. That no matter how tough some days may be, I will continue to push forward and thrive on.
Do you ever have those moments? That pause where everything all comes flooding back again? I had a meeting for work yesterday which brought me back to this same hall. The yellow dots staring back at me. The ones that led me to my lumpectomy. My mastectomy. And 2 more surgeries to help reconstruct my breasts. I remember this walk like it was yesterday. Each time just as hard as the next.
Back at home after an amazing trip away in Italy! It felt so good to get away from the constant appointments, the stress the uncertainty, and just enjoy myself for 2.5 solid weeks. Taking this trip was one of the best things for my emotional and well being right now. For the first time in 2 years, I felt like everything around me was a little less foggy and a little bit clearer. I needed this.
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