It is now more than two years since I was diagnosed with cancer, soon I will reach the two-year anniversary of when I started and then finished chemo, and then started and finished radiation. Most people assume, this far out, that I must be fine. Back to normal. Especially considering that I did not have […]
Two years ago today was the day I was diagnosed with cancer. Since then, I’ve had several friends, acquaintances, and relatives diagnosed with cancer and other serious illnesses. It’s heartbreaking. Life lessons, after two years of knowledge and experience: 1. Cancer is horrible, but it’s not a death sentence. Not right away anyway (and for […]
Every fall, there comes a day where I have to pull on my skinniest jeans (The Looker, by Mother Denim) for the first time, after months of forgiving dresses, skirts, and lightweight summer pants. It’s always a bit scary for me; no matter what the scale says, I’m always convinced I’ve gained too much […]
As my hair has grown from nonexistent to a buzz cut to a very short pixie to a pretty typical pixie cut; I have learned to like it short…and unless they are all lying so does just about everybody I know. In spite of that, I have always thought that I needed to grow it […]
I had my surgery last Tuesday (February 7th), it was called a laproscopic bilateral salpingo oopherectomy. Basically they made a hole in my belly button and put a camera in it, made two holes on the sides of my lower abdomen and used them to insert tools to remove and chop up my ovaries and […]
