All The Feels

"Sometimes you don't realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness." ~ Susan Gale My body is the...

When I reflect upon the three hundred and sixty five days of 2024, I paid honor to it, I forgave it, I gave it grace, I accepted what I...

Ready for my check up Mr DeMille! At 63 I’ve had my share of yearly wellness exams and then on to specific care doctor’s appointments. ...

As I move into the next five years of hormone therapy I do exhale. I do breathe. Cancer has no time table. From tumor discovery through...

There is a routine of care given to me by my oncology team consisting of my daily and nightly skin regime, nutrition, medicine, (yuck!),...

When I received the call that my radiation treatments were going to begin August 1st the significance or irony or whatever, was not lost...

Sixteen days. Monday through Friday. Doesn't seem like a lot, yet it is. For me. Speaking with friends who persevered through their own...

Twelve treatments down. Four more to go. (at the time I began writing this post) Everything my oncologists told me regarding the side...

Seems poignant to me that the first day I begin radiation treatment is the first day of my birthday month. I've been talking with friends...

rarely do i have that moment that piece of time that time of peace quiet no neighbors above across the courtyard way quiet i stare at my...

The proverb "It takes a village to raise a child." gets its roots from the Igbo tribe of Nigeria. For decades, though the context remains...

I wish I had taken a picture of it but I didn’t. This is exactly what it looked like though. This week, one early evening, I was relaxing...

I remember when my mother was diagnosed with Sjogren's Syndrome. She was a divorcee, living in Ann Arbor, Michigan, her two daughters...

I'm going to be intimate in the feels of this post. That disclaimer is more for the gentlemen readers. Breasts are indeed intimate. Just...

I tried to come up with a catchy title for this entry but this was as good as it got. My radiation treatment consult on Thursday was...

It's been about a month since I was working in the office. Up to my surgery I had been working from home because of all of the...

Friday I met my oncologist, Dr. Park. Dr. Park talks a lot, but I gather in this instance it's needed. Yet, it wasn't bad at all. She was...

Today was the first day in this journey that when asked how I was doing, I responded with silence. I responded with a tear. I responded...

Just a clever play on words. Had my post op appointment. It was great to go over my pathology results in person with my surgeon. Seeing...

After surgery I had to play another waiting game. Waiting for the results from pathology. The results from the testing of the cancer...