by Amy Banocy | Mar 17, 2023 | Blog, Breast Cancer, Health
Two years ago today I stepped out my front door, my heart beating fast and my stomach doing flips.I had hugged each of my boys as they got ready for virtual school that morning. I vividly remember Derek grabbing my bag and walking in front of me, out the door, toward...
by Amy Banocy | Sep 27, 2021 | Blog, Health, Lifestyle, Tips & Tools
Damn, emotions and feelings can be so fucking complicated, can’t they?!?! 13 LYMPH NODES REMOVED AND NO EVIDENCE OF METASTATIC CARCINOMA! Best words I’ve heard from a doctor since 12/10/20! So why did these words fall so flat? Why am I not jumping...
by Amy Banocy | Aug 23, 2021 | Blog, Health, Lifestyle, Tips & Tools
Not all negative memories need to remain. We have the ability to change our narratives and the stories we tell ourselves. My mom, sister and aunt all commented on how beautiful the grounds of the Schar Cancer Institute were when they came to chemo with me. They...
by Amy Banocy | Aug 20, 2021 | Blog, Health, Tips & Tools
WARNING: This may be my most vulnerable post yet and it contains somewhat graphic descriptions. It’s taken me some time to finish writing this and publish it. It’s very vulnerable and each time I revisited it, I questioned posting it. What was my...
by Amy Banocy | Aug 10, 2021 | Health
It has taken me a week to write this post. Part of that was due to normal fatigue and shit post-chemo, but mostly I haven’t written this post due to deep emotional and mental processing I’ve been doing. There is also fear in writing this (and the accompanying blog...