As many of you know, my family is not traditional. I consider my stepsister Katrina’s mom, Jackie, to be my adopted mom and I call her Momma J. Momma J used to work in a breast cancer center and has been a huge resource for me. Besides medical knowledge, she also came with practical knowledge. […]
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GI Update and Taxol 10/12
March 2020: I woke up with a sore throat. I had no other symptoms. No fever. No cough. No malaise. Nothing. I was extremely worried I had COVID, but that wasn’t it. After talking to a few people I decided it was heartburn. I adjusted my diet, stopped taking ibuprofen like it was my candy, […]
Greyhound People
I’m having an upper scope done today to look and see if I have any ulcers or issues. This means I’ve been NPO (“nothing by mouth”) since midnight and am one hangry lady. To battle my hunger, I decided I’ll make a post about what I’ve had brewing in my head for a while but […]
Hero’s Journey
Recently someone said to me that cancer is viewed as a hero’s journey, meaning that the sorority sisters go through this epic journey with a beginning, middle, and end. There is a big climax and then a resolve. Everything ends, packaged up all nicely with a bow on top and the hero sisters go back […]
Where is Mercury?
This post is for my sorority sisters. It’s to honor and see you. It’s to give the world just a glimpse into what it’s really like to have breast cancer. To recognize the struggle we are all going through right now, me included. It’s a bit scary to be this vulnerable to the whole world, […]