Listen in to this deeply honest chat with interior designer Kara San Julian about breast cancer, kicking addictions, and taking control of her own life and health.
Kara was in the middle of Living Spaces with a design client when she got the news that she had cancer. ..
She continued to drink heavily even while on chemo...
But eventually she found healing and sobriety on her own terms.
We chatted about:
- Benefits and hazards of Dr. Google
- Oncotype test, chemotherapy, radiation, tamoxifen,
- Doxorubicin, The Red Devil
- Drinking and breast cancer
- Alcoholism and other addictions
- Going through Chemo during the holidays
- Taxol
- Neuropathy
- Ports and caustic medicines
- Education via TikTok
- Night nurse brain and chemo brain
- Oncotypes
- Treatment options - lumpectomy versus single mastectomy versus double mastectomy
- Oncologists
- IUDs and cancer risk
- Opting out of treatments
- Finding Sobriety during chemo
- COVID alcoholics
- Drinking beer for breakfast
- Writing cold turkey
- Caretakers and support systems
- Love addiction
- And more...
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