Guest Blogger
Cheryl Greene is the co-founder and Executive Producer of DrGreene.com. She is a mother, a breast cancer survivor and a foodie. Cheryl is active in social media and can be found on Facebook and Twitter as MsGreene.
Bucket List
My father had two things on his bucket list. – he wanted to own a Cadillac and to go to Hawaii. In his early 70s he proudly bought a Cadillac. I asked him when he was going to Hawaii and he said, “Later.” He died at 73 never having seen the sun rise over the [...]
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Eco-Friendly Baby
I pulled this ParentsTV video out of the vault of oldies, but goodies. In it, host Juli Auclare asks, “What parent doesn’t love making choices that are not only healthy for their kids, but safe for the environment, too?” That’s the premise of Dr. Greene’s book, Raising Baby Green.
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Life after Breast Cancer
Although it was just a couple of weeks ago when my doctor looked me in the eye and called me cured of the breast cancer that had almost ended my life, I’ve actually considered myself free from cancer for quite some time. When I was diagnosed, Alan and I took a serious look at our [...]
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Enduring the Journey, Finding the Cure
I started off with one of the strongest Western medicine available, and at the end of my treatment, I was in a very vulnerable position. The cancer was gone, but the first year after treatment has the highest risk of recurrence. And cancer that comes back during this time usually spreads very quickly and is [...]
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Getting Treatment: How I Became an e-Patient
When I started treatment, my goal was to make sure the medical staff thought of me as the perfect patient. I was going to do exactly what they said to do and follow all the rules – and I was going to be happy about it.
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Getting the Diagnosis: All You Hear is “Cancer”
I tried for 15 years to get pregnant, and when I was told that we should prepare to welcome a baby boy, I was determined to do everything right. I was prepared for the challenges of breastfeeding, but it turns out that my son and I were the perfect nursing pair. He did a great [...]
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My Breast Cancer Story: Let’s Start at the End
On September 8, 2009 I went to my doctor for my annual physical. I’m very diligent about getting my regular checkup because I have a history… On March 22, 1996 I was diagnosed with stage three inflammatory breast cancer and given months to live. This doctor, my gynecologist, has been with me the entire time [...]
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Take Advantage of Resources
Tip #7: If you know what you want to cook, it’s really easy to find great recipes online by doing a simple search. But what if you don’t know? Besides a “fallback menu” I have a series of resources that I fallback on to get new ideas or just to remind me about recipes I’ve [...]
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Eat Together
Tip #6: As families become busier and busier with kids rushing from school to sporting practices, to music lessons, to drama rehearsals and as parents stay later-and-later at work, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to share family meals. We are just as guilty of this as anyone, but we do make a huge effort to share [...]
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Build Food Traditions Around Special Days
Tip #4: Around our house, birthdays and holidays are really a big deal. For those days, we go all out on the food. We have created menus that we use year after year for special days.
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