RECLAIM THE DAY
As an adult, I’ve come to love St. Patrick’s Day. I’m not Irish. I don’t go out and get drunk. But for years working downtown Nashville (before it became the insanity it is today), it came to be a night that, no matter what day […]
Category: cancer
FINDING THE BLESSINGS
My doctor told me that six weeks past chemo seems to be a sweet spot for their patients. It’s the time when they’ve been told “things get better.” Can confirm. Last Friday marked the six-week mark post-chemo. I thought I’d been doing well, until this […]
LITTLE THINGS
This coming Friday is my last round of chemotherapy for breast cancer. Following this will be surgery, (probably) radiation and continued immunotherapy. I’ve been a ball of anxiety for the last week. I’d read about women feeling anxious, and even depressed, at the end of […]
MY PLOT TWIST HAD PLOT TWISTS
It doesn’t feel like two months have passed since I last wrote in this blog. However, so much has happened since my last post… I suppose it only makes sense that 60 days have come and gone. It’s been a roller coaster ride of emotions […]
PLOT TWIST
Much like my initial Facebook post, I don’t know how to even start this. But just like that post, I’ll just say it. I have breast cancer. It’s gotten oddly easier to say over the last week since I got the news, while sitting at […]