Before I get too far into this post, I must remind you, Pinterest queen, I am not. I’ve tried the “best broccoli ever” which ended up looking like a Keebler village had been torched, I attempted “three ingredient pancakes” which I decided […]
Before you ask… because it’s the number one question I have gotten… Nope. No plans to ever run a 13.1 mile race again. A 10k, sure. A 5k, absolutely! But is there another 1/2 marathon in my future, nope. Why? […]
People often ask, “what did you learn from having cancer?” How do I even begin to cover all the things I learned from even just the waiting for a life changing thing? How do I explain what I learned from […]
On December 1st, 2016, I went under anesthesia for the 5th time in 2016. It was, by far, the easiest of all of my procedures — well, maybe not the Fecal Transplant. Outside of the prep for the colonoscopy, that […]
Dear mom… I don’t know if I ever thanked you. I don’t think I ever have actually uttered what it has meant to me. I don’t know if you know how much I credit you for the person I am. […]
I got a message the other day from a mom. A woman who had just lost a baby. And as you know if you’ve lost a pregnancy, the word lost is so weird. Like lost, as I mentioned when I experienced a loss […]
I am in menopause. Have I mentioned that lately? I know. It seems like a pretty personal detail but you’ve seen my boobs so I think we’re close by now. The ovary town is shut down. The estrogen has evacuated […]
I got a message from you the other day. I just had a biopsy. And now, I’m waiting. What do I do? What did they tell you? What… *** I feel my face warming. I feel my eyes pooling. I feel heavy. […]
I watched her. My sweet friend nursed her babe the other day as we chatted. And I watched. Not like a voyeur. I wasn’t catching any boob views. But I watched her each time she put him to the breast […]
“I would die 4 U.” I know what you’re thinking… “that Prince. All he did was make hits.” But gosh. Prince wasn’t the first one to tell us he’d die for us, was he? Nope. We say, “oh my gosh! […]
