This is my blog about my journey of healing from cancer. I am still battling it and still fundraising to pay for that battle. For awhile, I stopped blogging about it, for reasons only I need to know and understand.
Feel free to read the posts about my diagnosis especially if you or someone you know has cancer. Its very informative, or at least I think so.
And don't ever let a doctor or other medical person bully you into something just because you're scared. Educate yourself first and foremost.
Long live the happy hearted.
Namaste.

Sunday, August 5, 2012

Bounce your boobies, ladies. Its WBW!!!

So this blog is about how I am treading my way through cancer. However, let it be heard loud and clear, I am still a breastfeeding mom. Despite the stupid doctor telling me I'd have to quit nursing (he meant because of the treatments that I'm not taking) and despite some people I know looking at me strangely, I am still breastfeeding my 1 year old son and I will be until he decides to wean himself. So I celebrate World Breastfeeding Week by doing what I have been doing for the last 5+ years. Yes, I have been nursing for a child for over 5 years. My oldest daughter still nurses off and on (mostly off) and of course, there's that one year old kid I already mentioned.
Its weird being a breastfeeding mom with cancer. Its weirder being a cancer target (because I refuse to be labeled "victim") not going through chemo and radiation and surgery and all the other typical BS. Anyhow, there are times when I feel like yelling "Give me a freaking break, I have cancer", but then I worry about the looks I'll get from people who think I must be lying because I was just breastfeeding my baby or the looks from the other people who think I'm crazy for breastfeeding him while I have cancer. Either way, I get the looks.
Of course, I get those looks just for breastfeeding because in this society boobs are seen as being either for sex or as a science experiment for cancer drugs. I tweeted exactly what I believed not too long ago: "Boobs-For Infant and Toddler Use Only". Truthfully, it should have said "For Infant and Children's Use Only" because I am educated enough to know that breastfeeding can safely and intelligently extend beyond the toddler years and into the Pre-K years and maybe beyond. However, that is another topic for another blog.
However, you wish to celebrate and honor it, please do so. World Breastfeeding Week is for all breastfeeding moms, moms who used to breastfeed and those who were breastfed. If you can count to 2,000, you should probably thank your moms boobs for that.
Thanks, Mom, your boobs helped me succeed in life. And thanks, to my littlest one, who is probably the reason I found my cancer when I did.

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