This was the boys first day of preschool and I remember trying really hard to be present despite being so distracted by all the cancer things going on. I got my diagnosis on the first day of school for the girls and that day is a blur. I missed moments that I wanted to remember […]
Chris and I had one last date before all the cancer treatments were going to begin. God, we needed it. We’re parents of four children so there is always someone interrupting. We hadn’t been able to just talk and get our thoughts out in what felt like forever. I was also craving time to just
I had to get ready. The 4 weeks leading up to my surgery were a blur of deep deep sadness and a rigid need to prepare. There were things I really wanted to get done before I started the whole cancer treatment process. This is pretty self explanatory but my house needed one of those
I’ve had to deliver news a time or two in my life. I’ve had to deliver happy, weird, devastating, and really everything in-between kind of news. But I’d never delivered the news that I had cancer, this piece of news had never been my news. How would I deliver that news? Is it something I
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You know how there are events in your life that you use to gauge different seasons? Usually they are big events like having a child, buying a house, getting married, a death, or a diagnosis. You know, like milestones that can be happy or sad. Breast Cancer is the first milestone I have entered into
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August 17th, 2024 I’m not going to lie, one of the very first things I thought of after I got my breast cancer diagnosis was the reality that I was going to lose my hair. I knew that there were some variations of chemo that didn’t cause hair loss, but it wasn’t likely that I
First things first: isn’t that thumbnail for my video just ridiculous? I’m positive that there is a way to fix that by selecting a more flattering screen grab but I decided I didn’t want to take the time to figure out how to do that. Time is money and money is time “they” say, and
This was the day….the day that was going to direct the next months of my life. I was meeting with the oncologist, oncology surgeon, and radiologist. I can’t remember that morning very well, I’m sure I was nervous, that feels right considering the circumstances of that day. We got the girls off to school and
Monday, August 12th, 2024 Things moved really fast after I got my official diagnosis and I was looking at a week that held A LOT of things I didn’t really want to do. On this day I had Genetic Counseling. What is that you ask? Well, if you get diagnosed with cancer you are offered
August, 8 2024 I recorded the below video the day after I got my diagnosis. I was diagnosed with Breast Cancer on August 7th, 2024 and I needed to sit with the reality that I had officially been diagnosed with something I was at one point very afraid of. I also didn’t really have any
