Previously I posted about the things I learned while doing my immune therapy in Santa Barbara at the Issels Center. You may have noticed that my list includes some pretty random things, and that not all of the items on my list appear to be health related.   As a...

I'm going to split up the posts about all I learned while doing immunotherapy in Santa Barbara simply because explaining the entire list would be overwhelming as one blog post. Ivan (my dear, dear husband) and I learned more than we ever, ever thought we would need to...

Once my week of immuno-oncology treatment was finished in Mexico, the Issels Medical Center transferred me from the hospital in Tijuana to their facility in Santa Barbara, CA. The fact that their focus on cancer is one week of the four and the rest of the time is...

Let me pause from blogging about the dynamics of my week in the hospital (pursuing immuno-oncology after my breast cancer diagnosis) to take you inside my heart, for that is truly where most of my healing is taking place. It is my Ground Zero for healing.   My first...

So, now I am home from my month-long treatment. I won't say "cancer treatment," because it was so much more than that, and I have learned a lot!   To bring you up to speed, I left very quickly for Mexico after the 3T MRI test results returned with a BI-RADS score of...