The Loud Mouth Gets Wired, a series.

Peace in my body

I am sharing two journal entries that I wrote the day before and day of my latest procedure.

April 26th, 2023

From jetting off to the DR to a hot date with Mount Sinai West. I am not out of the woods yet.

Grieving

March was a dark month. As the month began, my dad just learned that his cancer had spread from his lungs to his bones, his abdomen, and his brain. His cancer was now terminal.

Although, it always had been. He was already signed on to do some form of treatment for the rest of his life…

Dabbling in sobriety

I haven’t had a drink in over 75 days. I don’t know when the last one was because I didn’t make a conscious decision to stop drinking. I mean, I did temporarily in the sense that I was preparing for surgery.

Meet the flap

I can’t pretend to know all the medical school specifics, but part of my hip bone and my oblique muscle were used to reconstruct my jaw.

The ebb & flow of healing

A log of my progress to remind me where I started

Symmetry is a hoax

You know that phrase “eyebrows should be sisters, not twins”? It’s cute, but do we believe it? And why doesn’t it apply to…

A reintroduction to my body

I’m healing from my jaw surgery, and the most obvious and anticipated change is of course, the jaw line and…

We didn’t expect it

I’m sorry for being so trusting and brave that I didn’t ask more questions
You didn’t expect me to look the way I did
Those…

Transformative energy

How I’m using astrology to understand by own recovery