Far from shore, the swell rises. A lone surfer leaps to catch the long, languorous ride. The wave breaks with a pounding crash, prostrating itself at my feet and kissing my toes where foam meets sand. That kiss electrifies me with the epiphany of all that is beautiful and sacred in this world… April 2016 — I grew […]
January, 2016 Palm Desert, CA I’ll be honest. I haven’t been posting much content lately, not just because I’ve been traveling so much, but because I have been feeling like a hypocrite. It is so hard to stick to my dietary regimen when I am traveling. And after you bend a rule, it’s just a matter of time […]
2015 – The Gratitude Tour continued, appropriately, through Thanksgiving. This time I travelled north to Seattle, where it all went down, as I fought the cancer demon down three years ago. If it weren’t for my sister, who took me in and cared for me when I couldn’t use my legs. Let alone care […]
When the going gets tough… the tough go traveling! On halloween (2013), they found 9 brain tumors… leptomeningeal carcinomatosis… and gave me a few weeks to live. Yeah, I didn’t like that prognosis, so I took things into my own hands…
I have rented a little casita in the jungle for my sabbatical to work on my books. I am taking a holiday from western medicine (my monthly infusions, scans, doctors, etc.) and going to forget for three months that I have cancer.
October is Breast Cancer Awareness month October 2015 – I decided to attend the Metastatic Breast Cancer Conference in Boston and thought it would be a great opportunity to see friends and family that supported me during my time of need, to thank them and show them how well I’m doing now. I’ve lived past […]
Cuba is beautiful, the people are so wonderful, the food is great, the music is great…. traveling around using the bus system was spectacular.
Part 1 of a three-part blog post on travel to Bhutan as part of Kaiulani Facciani’s I’m gonna live until i die! inspirational travel blog.
Written early Sunday am, Sept 13, 2015 By Sue Van Hook, DCIS thriver I was born with two of them Felt the breast buds emerge Bound them with soft trainers Until bra less set them free. Rarely thought of them as precious Glad for their smallness Less hassle in the braless days Could wear anything, […]
Reflecting back on my original cancer diagnosis, and the prognosis that followed, it’s hard to believe that I’m sitting here writing this today. But as the old proverb goes, everything happens for a reason; and I believe that reason is to share my experience with the readers of I’m Gonna live until I die. My […]
excerpted from Kaiulani Facciani’s book, Whatever Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Strong. November, 2012 – soon after diagnosis of Stage IV breast cancer and prognosis of just weeks to live. Five years ago, I had Ductal Carcinoma In Situ (DCIS), which is Stage 0, pre-cancer. Not really even considered cancer to most doctors. But the […]
excerpted from Kaiulani Facciani’s book, Whatever Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Strong. I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they’re right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, […]
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