Life

Things I Shouldn’t Know

I shouldn’t know what it feels like to watch my friends die
I shouldn’t have to choose whether I want to have…

ProTips: We Got You

Pro-Tip (n) : amazing advice and/or suggestion from someone who has walked the walk. (ex) save room in your luggage for CancerCon swag

Life's Hard Questions

I was having a conversation with my aunt and she wanted to ask me some ‘hard questions.’ What would happen if I were to die? Which given 2 months to live is a real possibility. She asked me who would get my dog? What I would want to happen to my body? Where I wanted to die? If my cancer…

These Things I Have Done

I now have more procedures in a month than I had had in my entire life leading up to now. I’m not including my surgeries or chemo treatments in this list, but I wanted to share the diagnostic tests that were the most scary and unknown. I went into a few blindly, let me spare you.

Cake For Dinner

“Can I please have a slice of the coconut cake?”

I saw it, just standing there all alone. It was the very last slice on the giant cake stand. It was just standing upright under the round clear glass cover. As if it was just waiting for someone to take it with them. And with…

Sometimes Doctors are Wrong

With Thanksgiving and Black Friday a few days ago, I wanted to pause and reflect with a blog post. I didn’t want to write a stereotypical “This is What I’m Thankful For” post, so I’m going to try not to do that. These holidays have a different meaning for me this year.