DebbY Does Chemo

(A Blog about Breast Cancer, but Funnier)

In early September 2016, I was diagnosed with Stage 3 breast cancer. I had plans—a growing dog-related business, a 20+-year career in proposal management, a passion for European travel, family and friends—and cancer took a big crappola on all of that. This blog captures my experience with cancer—doubt, diarrhea, dark days, and even delight (at times)—and into recovery.

Even though the blog was written several years ago—I think it’s still relevant to anyone wanting a front row seat to what it’s like to look cancer in the hairy eyeball.

The blog isn’t dead, though I do post less frequently! I write as the spirit moves me. So, please do subscribe. And, I’d also love it if you’d hop on over to my other blog on this page: Debby Does Destinations.

Welcome to my first-ever blog! DEBBY DOES CHEMO...
I've been interested in blogging over the years but just never had the motivation and time to understand exactly where someone did this blog thing and how. But, with a stage 3 breast cancer diagnosis popping into my life a couple of weeks ago, I figured this would be a good time to try something new, and a way to process my experience and share it with anyone who wants to join me for this ride.

Maybe next I'll figure out what the heck a hashtag is and where you find one.

So, for those of you out there who are either two young or sheltered to know what the title of my blog refers to, google "Debby Does Dallas". BUT--don't do so if you're on a work computer, or in a public place where people can see your screen, and don't do it with kiddos nearby. If I've just opened up a whole new interest for you, you can thank me later (and don't tell your significant other it was me...unless he or she likes it).

Another warning about this blog. I wear it on the sleeve. I am generally pretty open. Not all of what I write will be pretty. There may be lots of swearing and I may not be PC and polished. But, I also hope there will be humor, light, lots of off-color cancer humor...and perhaps, even some disco dancing.

So, to keep this one on the light side, let me share some of the runner-ups for ideas to name this blog:

It Was the Breast of Times...
Tumor Humor
The Boobie Diaries
Tits and Assk Me Questions
Help My Boob is Trying to Kill Me
Tits and Bits
Would You Like to See my Cans...sir?
Hey Cancer! Suck it
Dude, Where's my Tit?
(Many thanks to my totally twisted girlfriends, most from good-old St Mary all-girl's high school for these, including Terry Kennedy Kendell for the name of this blog!)