Cancerwise

Do you know that stress scale ranking traumatic life events? Like the death of a close family member or a major illness? Well, I had three of the top five life-altering events all at once during the summer of 2011.

The first stressor was my younger sister dying of colon cancer. The second was parenting three kids under age 5 alone because my husband had just started a new job in South Carolina and we were in the process of relocating...