Oh hey there mama of a newborn. I know you forgot this. In the middle of the night. When you were walking through the dark to retrieve a crying babe. A babe that needed the breast or the bottle. A […]
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When I was playing the waiting game with my diagnosis — the first few weeks of blur… blood work, biopsies, urine specimens, medical history, ultrasounds, mammograms — I was out of my damn mind. Truly. I was walking around in […]
I love my children. I do. I love learning to know them. I love watching them come undone from infancy into toddlers into these people. I love, more than I ever wanted to, being able to be home with them. I […]
I took the Ashland exit off of I80 in Nebraska. I took a right onto a county road. I drove straight down until I reached a plot of peace. The office to one side of the road. And down a […]
On Friday, I had my monthly visit to Nebraska Medicine for my Lupron shot. When people ask me if I am still on treatment, it’s a tricky question. I don’t do “treatment” anymore, but there is some “maintenance” done to […]
As a mama to 3 boys under 8, I will often get the question, “What are things you can’t live without?” As babies, my answers would have been: Boppy, Baby Bjorn, Chicco carseat, sheet covers Just past the baby phase: […]
I could feel the warmth under my skin. The prickly, stinging flush that rushes from beneath and stirs heat to the surface of the face. My chin, quivering. I closed my eyes just in time for the tears to fall. […]
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Where do I go from here
Posted On March 6, 2017
Remember when I talked about being in the carwash? If you do, you get a gold star. If you don’t, then I will give you the short end of the tale: When I got diagnosed with breast cancer, I likened […]
Today. Today is one year after the day that I went into the hospital, a newly-minted 34 year old, a mother of three little boys under 7, a wife to my husband of 11 years, a daughter, a friend, a […]
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A post about running from a running non-runner
Posted On February 23, 2017
Did you track that? This is about to go down. A post, about running. Written by yours truly, a true non-runner, who is currently trying to do running. Because YOLO. {Is that even still a thing?} Anyway. So here’s the […]
