I love story. Thank you for reading mine.
This series holds everything from September 2, 2021 through December 31, 2022. I’d stopped writing daily and instead transitioned to writing whatever and whenever I had something to share regarding all of the things surviving cancer teaches me.
Why do we sugarcoat things? Because truth is high stakes. And it’s risky. And sometimes we’ve been harmed by its tactlessness or we’ve been manipulated by its manipulator or it has been weaponized. And
The anxiety has boiled over. Friday I hardly ate.Saturday I couldn’t stand the dogs. Every little thing they did annoyed me. Poor dogs. Yesterday was sensory overload. The noise. And smells. And my clothes. And breathing. Today
It’s my birthday today. And it’s snowing like crazy. And for anyone that knows me, they know I LOVE snow. Like, LOOOOOOOVE it. So, yay for me. 🙂 Birthdays look different to me now. Today’s
A Problematic Metaphor We realllllllly don’t like the out-of-control feeling it is to not understand something. We don’t like it when things don’t make sense. We get antsy and prickly when we can’t explain
I wanna talk about something. . .you know, like I do. . .something about cancer that is rarely talked about among fellow patients, as education for the newly diagnosed, within caregiver groups, and that
Chemotherapy may in fact be one of the most wretched human experiences. I mean it is literal poison. And yet it is also this magic potion that has the power to extend lives. It
Something occurred to me today. It could be that I’m slow on the uptake and this is not a new insight for my fellow carcinomies (that’s what we call each other), but it’s new
It’s peculiar. . . When I think about my cancer story and all that is in it… When I go through it and tick off the big dates, the ones that hold the significant
How does somewhere so crowded feel solonely?And how does a place with standing room only feel soempty? How is it that even on common ground very little iscommon?And how is it that even in shared experiences very little
It’s here! Blog 5 of 5 for Cancer Support Community. August is a difficult month with many difficult anniversaries. In this part 5, I talk about the dark and the light and how each
