When she first looked down after her double mastectomy, Tita didn’t panic. But adjusting to life without a bra has been strange.
Nothing could prepare her for the emotions of losing a part of her body. But her tumor is g…
Tita's finally starting to feel like herself again after six grueling months of chemo. With no more nausea, she can actually enjoy pizza and pasta without feeling sick.
Her mastectomy is coming up soon, and her oncologist…
Tita's latest MRI shows her tumor is shrinking. She's planning a butterfly tattoo after her double mastectomy to symbolize her metamorphosis.
She shares what keeps her strong and optimistic: a job focused on helping othe…
Tita’s white blood count drops so low she has to reduce her chemo infusions to every other week. Zarxio injections and immunotherapy help keep it in a healthy range.
The new schedule extends her treatments through May, le…
Feeling worse than usual and suspecting her chemo dosage might be too high, Tita asks her doctor for another mammogram and ultrasound to check visually for signs of cancer.
Dismayed to find out she needs two more months o…
After her second triple infusion of chemo, Tita is feeling worse than ever—no appetite, headaches, achy joints, the whole side effect shebang.
The silver lining is that her oncologist can no longer find the lump. She chec…
Triple negative breast cancer means aggressive chemo, and for Tita, dealing with everyone else's worry on top of it is too much. With her first chemo session completed, she's determined not to let cancer overshadow her grat…
Following the loss of her mother and some traumatic family drama that came with it, Dr. Tita Gray discovered a lump in her breast.
Scared but determined, she moves quickly to get a biopsy and finds out she has breast cancer…
The results of Kristen's PET scan showed two lymph nodes lighting up, one in the gastro-hepatic area of her abdomen and the other in the lining of her esophagus.
While it could just be inflammation, Dr. Ali wants her to see…
After a fiasco in Escondido involving multiplying rodents and toxic air quality, Kristen’s on the move again.
The pulmonologist found ground glass lungs and an enlarged heart, then Dr. Ali found an enlarged lymph node betw…