#neuropathy

Kelly Shanahan, MD, 61, is a wife, mother, daughter and doctor living with metastatic breast cancer in South Lake Tahoe, California.

So much happened in the first few weeks of the New Year that I can’t even write sufficiently about it. Then I fell really hard. Rest time!

Are there any single and childless cancer survivors who are also only children?

From chronic pain to neuropathy to thin and wonky hair to burns, I continue to feel like an actress playing the greatest role of my life.

Former Rockette Jennifer Jones followed health guidelines and got a colonoscopy at age 50. Then she learned she had Stage III colon cancer.

I had to break up with my love of heels and wear flats because of severe chemo-induced peripheral neuropathy in both feet.

I have neuropathy, fibromyalgia and chemo brain happening at once. I knew I was talented, but this takes it to a whole new level.

I wake up every day in horrible chronic pain caused by the treatments and surgeries that are keeping me alive, but not living or thriving.

There is a glimmer of hope shining in the distance. It’s not totally bleak.