If you had asked me — and who would have thought to ask — I would have said I was a bandana girl. But when it came time to choose, I chose a wig. And didn’t wear it.
Neither would I wear a hat, though I tried a few. And I had little luck with baseball caps and scarves that refused to cling to my newly naked head.

I just read this online article at Health.com called 7 Women Who Lost Their Hair to Breast Cancer Treatment and What They Did About It. To my surprise, I am quoted in the piece (I remember being interviewed by Health.com, but didn’t know the article was scheduled to appear and didn’t know the context in which I’d be quoted.)
“Adds Karen Lynch, 40, a writer who blogs about breast cancer (www.pinkribbonreview.com) in Fairfield, Conn., “the uncertainty about losing your hair is a huge thing. I don’t know why we’re so wrapped up in our hair, but we are.”
It’s a little …read more

I thought we all could benefit from a menopause primer.
Let’s start with a general definition. Menopause is defined as the absence of menstrual periods for 12 months. It starts when a woman’s menstrual cycle starts to vary in length and duration and ends when it is clear that the function of the ovaries have ceased — twelve months after the last menstrual period.
So, a woman with regular periods is considered premenopausal. Once her periods start to become irregular, she’s perimenopausal. Twelve months after her last period, she’s post menopausal.
In natural menopause, the ovaries naturally decrease their production of the sex …read more