(One Year Cancer Free Day is Tomorrow!) It was supposed to be a grand day, a day which put an exclamation point on the recovery. We were still inside one year since the double mastectomy, which made the moment even…

So there we were, entering a new calendar year. A few months removed from breast implant surgery and one month removed from the revision of that implant surgery. Three operations inside of seven months, a lot of recoveries, a ton…

How many times in life do we make it all too complicated? Without even realizing it, without even stopping to think we should stop the way we are thinking, what we are saying, how we are feeling. As The Eagles…

As we arrived at Thanksgiving Day along the first year journey, I wanted to find a way to say thanks to my wife for making the sacrifice to beat breast cancer. This is my Letter to Debbie. Written Thanksgiving Day,…

We are halfway home. Five more days until the One Year Cancer Free Anniversary. (Don’t forget the Guestbook is always open @ http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/debbiebrodinsky) It was late September, B-Day (Breast Day), as Debbie went back under the knife to receive implants….

Some people try to be heroes. Others are born to be. For nearly half of his young life Gene Kirchner gave back, volunteering as a firefighter for the Reisterstown Volunteer Fire Company in Reisterstown, Maryland. But on April 24th, Kirchner…

I thought this would be it. I thought after they finally pulled the damn drains out of Debbie’s sides about three weeks after surgery that it would be smooth sailing… I thought I would wrap up the journal and we…

We were finally back home, post-surgery, and as far as we were concerned, cancer-free. Though pathology tests would not be back for several days, there was little doubt Debbie’s sacrifice to have a double mastectomy, had made the difference. Cancer…