Catherine Gigante-Brown

I saw my present mother-in-law in a whole new light the first time she held my newborn son.

Being a little bit chubby is better than being a lot dead.

As a breast cancer survivor, the worst day of the year is when I go for my mammogram. True, nobody actually likes mammos, but I’ve been bitten by one. On the way to my annual squishing, I realized that I have a bunch of coping strategies.

If the odds of getting cancer are like Powerball, why couldn't I be a scratch-off millionaire?

“It’s almost as though this niche was patiently waiting for us to find it.”

"I was afraid this thing was going to do me in. But I took a deep breath and decided very early on that I would face cancer on my own terms."

TCM (traditional Chinese medicine) has been around for at least five centuries –– there’s got to be something to it.

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It sounded too good to be true: comfortable, attractive bra inserts for breast cancer survivors like me. I got on the computer, checked out their website, and immediately put in for one.

To the tattoo artist, I was a flesh canvas that she could transform into something beautiful.