by Tambre Leighn | May 2, 2011 | Cancer Survivorship
911 happened five months after my late husband, Gary, died from cancer. May 7th marks the tenth anniversary of his passing. In calendar terms, a decade is a long time to have our military hunting down a man. It is a long time for those who lost loved ones on 9/11 and...
by Tambre Leighn | Apr 12, 2011 | Cancer Survivorship
…so this year I am captaining a team in the Beverly Hills Relay for Life to fight back! May 7th, 2011 marks the ten year anniversary of the death of my husband from Hodgkins Disease. The impact of cancer on my life as a result of this was so significant...
by Tambre Leighn | Mar 25, 2011 | Grief Recovery
In the darkest moments of grieving the loss of my husband, the only light I could find was the tiniest pinprick far out on the horizon. When I followed the fragile beam of that light, it led me to the answer to one of life’s biggest questions…why am I here? Why had I...
by Tambre Leighn | Mar 18, 2011 | Grief Recovery
When Gary was diagnosed there were a lot of uncertainties. Perhaps the only sure thing was that the outcome would be either he would recover or he would die…not that we ever spoke this directly. It was the proverbial elephant in the room…the thing we dare...
by Tambre Leighn | Feb 23, 2011 | Grief Recovery
After finalizing plans for how and where I would let go of Gary’s wedding ring on my trip to Kathmandu, we wove through throngs of people and lazy cows who had supreme right of way. As we entered the temple at Boudhanath, the smell of incense filled the air,...