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Danielle Bitton
Jan 23, 20216 min read
The Aftermath
The most interesting thing happens to you when you are suddenly no longer in "freeze mode" in fight or flight when it's no longer about...
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Danielle Bitton
Nov 28, 20206 min read
Reconstruction Surgery
I couldn't believe that I was at the final stage of this journey, I was supposed to have my reconstruction surgery on the 25 November at...
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Danielle Bitton
Nov 3, 202013 min read
Updates & Breast Cancer Awareness Month
I want to apologise for not writing in a while, I was instructed by my chiropractor to not look down, even slightly at the computer...
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Danielle Bitton
Sep 6, 20208 min read
Radioactive
Sing it with me! "All we need is radio gaga, radio gu gu, radio gaga!" Not radiation! The thought of my one breast being nuked in the...
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Danielle Bitton
Jul 20, 202050 min read
The Road Less Travelled Part 4: The Big Apple
I partied like a rockstar in Miami for WMC in March and moved to NYC straight after at the beginning of April 2007. I was 22 and...
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Danielle Bitton
Jul 13, 202032 min read
The Road Less Travelled Part 3: LA LA Land
I arrived in LA LA land and took a taxi straight from LAX to Jenny's home, a duplex on Doheny Drive. I drove along Sunset Boulevard and...
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Danielle Bitton
Jul 2, 202023 min read
The Road Less Travelled - Part 2
I read a book called Feel The Fear and Do It Anyway by Susan Jefferson, what I took from that book was that fear would always be there,...
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Danielle Bitton
Jul 1, 20207 min read
The Final Countdown
I'm interrupting my 5 part life story "The Road Less Travelled" to bring you some breaking news! I finished chemo 2 weeks ago! I know...
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Danielle Bitton
Jun 14, 202029 min read
The Road Less Travelled - Part 1
In grade 3, my class had to memorise a poem to recite to the school at our morning assembly, I must have been 9 at the time and even...
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Danielle Bitton
May 6, 202012 min read
Is Your Cup Half Full Or Half Empty?
Chemo Tuesdays I started my second type of Chemotherapy treatment last week called Paclytaxol, Taxol for short. I can't tell you how much...
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Danielle Bitton
Apr 22, 20203 min read
The Sea Point Balcony Singer
On Friday the 10 of April, I was finally starting to feel much better after my third round of The Red Devil. I was so grateful to have a...
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Danielle Bitton
Apr 10, 20209 min read
The Greek Guru
I was lucky enough to travel to Greece last year on a family holiday with my mother and brother, we visited Skiathos, Mykonos and Athens....
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Danielle Bitton
Apr 4, 20204 min read
The Chemo Corona Chronicles: The Devil Came Knocking
I had my chemo port surgery on Tuesday and went for chemo straight afterwards, I did my meditation during chemo again and almost fell...
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Danielle Bitton
Mar 29, 20205 min read
The Chemo/Corona Chronicles: A New Day
21 March I had a full-blown panic attack yesterday, it was scary. Thank God for Ativan! I managed to laugh my way through cutting and...
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Danielle Bitton
Mar 21, 20206 min read
Chemo/Corona Chronicles: Laughter & Tears
Self-quarantine started for me on Saturday, my last visitors were my brother and my neighbour, Sheri. We lost electricity at 10 pm and...
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Danielle Bitton
Mar 14, 20204 min read
My Corona
I was thinking, if there was ever a time in my life to get breast cancer, this is the perfect time! I don’t need to have FOMO on all the...
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Danielle Bitton
Mar 14, 20207 min read
The Chemo Chronicles: The Aftermath
I left the chemo room thinking I crushed my first session but 2 hours later nausea kicked in. I was visited by a nutritionist who told me...
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Danielle Bitton
Mar 7, 20204 min read
The Chemo Chronicles : 1st Session
Tuesday March 3 2020 I woke up today and remembered that I had a dream about my late father last night. I lost him 10 years ago to...
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Danielle Bitton
Feb 26, 20209 min read
Part 15: Wigs, Gigs & things.
Wed 26 Feb 2020 Wigs I was feeling great on Wednesday the day of my post-op appointment with Dr Dedekind, I put on some makeup and had...
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Danielle Bitton
Feb 21, 20203 min read
Part 14: Hallelujah!
I had the ultrasound in the morning and was anxiously waiting for the results. I wasn't in too much pain as the Gabapentin finally...
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