Tami Boehmer | Miracle Survivors

• Time on fire: A review

  I don’t often do book reviews on here, mostly because I get flooded by requests from them. But a pitch from Evan Handler’s publicist about his book, Time on Fire: My Comedy of Terrors, caught my eye. Yes, I admit, I’m a huge Sex and the City fan and loved Handler’s character Harry. So I [...]

• The gift of giving back

  “There’s tremendous power when you shift your perspective from a place of suffering to one of service. If you feel that you’ve ever been a victim in your life, it’s time to change that belief right now. When you look at all of your past hurts, big or small, as an opportunity to serve others, [...]

• My best birthday present ever

  Anyone with metastatic cancer and their loved ones understand the anxiety awaiting and getting scan results. Every three or four months, I lie still for 20 minutes in a tube, resisting the urge to itch, then wait a couple of days to pick up the results. Many people wait until their doctor’s appointment, but not [...]

• Kicking back cancer, cowgirl style

  “It may pop back up from time to time but we’ll just deal with that when it comes and kick it back hard each time! And who knows what the future of medicine will bring? I’m hopeful with all the research and money being spent that the cure will be found in my lifetime. ” [...]

• Guided meditation: a healthy way to be driven to distraction

  I’m in an interesting space right now – the blissful stage between scans. Right now I can almost forget I have cancer. I’m taking Affinitor and Aromasin, two oral medications to target the estrogen driving cancer. Sure I go into my oncolgist every few weeks for a checkup and get blood drawn, but I don’t have [...]