I look at my disfigured body… Time creates a distance but that is when time’s paradigm hasn’t been obliterated by trauma. This body I am forced to live in journeys with me in a
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
Do you know someone who’s been diagnosed with breast cancer? The likelihood (based solely on horrifying statistics) is that yes, you do. From the patient perspective, here is a list of very practical things
I’m gonna write about a topic today that most are very uncomfortable with…but I’m hoping to do two things: 1. Communicate the cancer #patientperspective for perspective’s sake and 2. Engage you, my reader, to consider
#Didyouknow Day 7 of 7 From the #patientperspective, cancer is not a temporary detour. And survivorship isn’t returning to the original route once the inconvenience of construction is over. That’s not how trauma works…
I love speaking in pictures. I feel like it helps communicate to a depth where sometimes words fall short. It helps me process and purpose the hardest parts of my story or illuminate the
A Patient’s Perspective Oof. Cancer is lonely. It’s such a confusing thing to say seeing as there are scores of people diagnosed with cancer all of the time…and specifically here, in this lovely #Pinktober,
It’s funny to me, that the only wig that I felt most comfortable in, was my purple one. I loathed the brown one and felt disgustingly fake in it. And despite it’s luxurious length
I remember during Chemo Class they told me that chemo tends to behave the same each round, that it is common for people, while still unique, to have similar experiences of each round. So,
Just keep showing up Committing to the attitude of ‘all feedback is relevant.’Just keep showing up Believing that ‘nothing is wasted.’Just keep showing up Practicing ‘grace upon grace upon grace.’Just keep showing up Living