Catherine Gigante-Brown
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Catherine Gigante-Brown Articles
BCBs are loud and proud and refuse to go down easy. And quietly. We have things to say. We have things to teach. We still have life to live. And damn it, we are and we will. With one breast. With no breasts. With reconstruction surgery.
Read...Alas, I am the lone female in a house full of men. Only two men, but they take up a lot of space.
Read...What Stephen didn’t know –– what no one knew –– was how weak my knees grew when I pushed through the swinging doors of the ICU.
Read...Food can be more than nourishing; it can be healing.
Read...That’s the thing about being a breast cancer survivor — it’s always there: it never goes away. The scars, the fear that lurks in the back of your mind like a boogeyman. You’re going along nicely, living your merry life, and you’re fine, until you’re not.
Read...Wrinkles or lifelines? Chunky or curvaceous? The choice is yours.
Read...The hell with his elaborate metaphors and rhetorical phrases. Iambic pentameter is cruel and unusual punishment.
Read...If the odds of getting cancer are like Powerball, why couldn't I be a scratch-off millionaire?
Read...raunchy renaissance woman. multimedia artist. probably a slut.
Read...I sat obediently in her chair atop four ancient copies of the Yellow Pages. Crossing my fingers, I prayed Catholic schoolgirl prayers.
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