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When Mom Is Sick…

by Julia Roller · In: Breast Cancer, Hospitality, Parenting, Uncategorized · on Feb 12, 2023

It should have been a mother's dream. As I lay in my bed with a book, I could hear my husband starting dinner preparations and marshaling the kids into peeling shrimp, chopping vegetables, and setting …

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Category: Breast Cancer, Hospitality, Parenting, UncategorizedTag: breast cancer, self care

What You Do After Cancer

by Julia Roller · In: Breast Cancer, Gratitude · on Feb 10, 2020

I drive to the medical center trying my best to distract myself with a podcast I’d saved just for the occasion, but once I check in and sit down it’s no longer possible to forget that it’s time for my …

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Category: Breast Cancer, GratitudeTag: after cancer, breast cancer, cancer free, cancer survivor, gratitude, Romans 8:28

Cancer-Free: A Resolution of Gratitude

by Julia Roller · In: Breast Cancer, Gratitude · on Jan 4, 2018

On December 28 I went to the cancer center for my yearly mammogram. Because my initial surgery to remove my breast cancer was in December, this anxiety-producing ritual now falls at the end of each …

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Category: Breast Cancer, GratitudeTag: breast cancer, Examen, gratitude, resolutions, spiritual disciplines, spiritual formation

The Three Lessons of Losing

by Julia Roller · In: Breast Cancer, Parenting, Uncategorized · on Aug 29, 2016

  We just returned home from a weekend soccer tournament. Three games and no wins—one tie and two losses. The second game was a bad loss, one where none of us were quite sure what the final …

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Category: Breast Cancer, Parenting, UncategorizedTag: breast cancer, losing, soccer, youth sports

On Having a New Baby and Breast Cancer

by Julia Roller · In: Breast Cancer, Parenting · on Aug 4, 2016

I was explaining to someone a few months ago that I was in chemotherapy and she looked in confusion at my five-month-old in the stroller right next to us. “But you have a baby!”   I know, I …

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Category: Breast Cancer, ParentingTag: breast cancer, breastfeeding, chemotherapy, new baby

What I’ve Learned from My Cancer Diagnosis

by Julia Roller · In: Breast Cancer · on Mar 1, 2016

      I was 39 weeks pregnant when I was diagnosed with breast cancer last October.   I’m not sure what (or who) exactly caused me to ask my nurse-practitioner to do a breast …

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Category: Breast CancerTag: breast cancer, cancer diagnosis, gratitude, new mom, Romans 8:28

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