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Hello, I go by Musu and I've decided to create this forum to share my thoughts and hear the thoughts of others pertaining to the body and listening to it. I'm a breast cancer survivor and have found that many people still keep the fact that they have or have had cancer a secret. There may be lots of survivors around you and you may not even know it! I'm not saying you should stop everyone on the street to let them know or put up a billboard, but because there are so many peop

Do you listen to your body and if so, how do you do it? My youngest daughter was eight when I was first diagnosed with breast cancer. Two years prior, I had gone to my primary care physician with complaints of sharp pains in my breasts. The next year, the pain began to intensify and the skin on my right areola had been changing in a negative way. I began feeling as though my breast was engorged with milk. I nursed my children and could familiarize with the feeling, but becaus

Sometime after Thanksgiving, years ago, a good friend of mine brought me to P.F. Chang's for dinner. It was my first visit & I Love Asian food! I had chicken lettuce wrap & shrimp lo mein. Later that night, I began to clear my throat a lot & just thought I was coming down with a cold. 3 days later I broke out in hives & had been ignoring the fact that I had been randomly itching since then. My primary care physician ordered an allergy test for me, & as life would have it, I w