Holidays mixed baggage gobble, gobble, blergh
Thanksgiving has never been my favorite. Even before the real story of the pilgrims and Christopher Columbus came out (I know these are...
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Walking instead of dragging into the holidays
Since being diagnosed with stage 4 colorectal cancer in May of 2019 my life has been peppered with sprints and comas in a sense. Though...
Walking through the rubble that is me.
It's interesting this new direction I am going in. I kind of feel floaty and untethered in the land of the unknown. I have a sense of...
All the pieces of me…Why, hello there!
I am slowly waking up to my body or at least starting to develop more of an awareness to it. For the longest time I have been...
“Very stable disease. No sign of progression.”
The message from my doctor regarding my latest CT scan results. I have mixed feelings about this. On one hand I am happy that there is...
Here comes the rain again and again and again…
Time fell back this weekend and the heavy that is a promise of winter weighs upon me. This is not a bad feeling, I have always enjoyed...
Almost normal…
My spicy butt took a turn for the better a couple of days ago, it isn't perfect but it feels less painful and I am able to lay on it for...
Oh crap! I almost forgot to write this post!
I can't blame Rick Simpson or significant pain for almost forgetting my obligatory thumb yammering, it's because I am essentially...
Slowly emerging
I used to make jewelry and art pieces to sell at craft fairs quite a bit in my life before getting sick. It's been a long time and of...
Feeling around the edges
That's about as far as I could get up the dune (with the help of my Pitt/Lab Ruby Sue.) Not that I couldn't have forced myself to the top...
Off the beaten path.
My husband and I will have been married 20 years next Tuesday, a miracle we made it this far considering my prognosis 3 and a half years...
Wo-MAN on the silver mountain
I love Dio...The title is a reference to one of their songs, which came into my mind thinking about being finished with the education...
A little less heavy
I don't know if it was the latest full moon (did anyone else see the moon bow?) or if it was the residual physical and energetic toll...
Plenty of shame in my game.
I realized how angry I was today when a car literally followed me to my parking space at the hospital. The person was holding up traffic...
And so it goes.
Since my surgery I have been crawling out of the exhaustion that occurs from anesthesia and scalpel related trauma. My butt is spicy and...
Hold on, it’s gonna be a bumpy ride!
Before surgery. I showed up at the surgery center, which is about 100 yards from the main hospital, for my "minor" surgery on Friday,...
Tomorrow…tomorrow…
After over a year I am getting cut open again. I was notified that I didn't have to take a Covid test because it is "minor" surgery...I...
The Tail Of The Dragon
My butt is acting like a complete douche. On top of my nightly fevers making a comeback there is a pressure/pain along my lower right...
My butt hurts…Surprise🙄!
Honestly it IS a surprise my butt has been extra spicy this week, I even had a fever yesterday. I am hoping my abscess surgery scheduled...
Colostotalk: Stupid human trick edition aka “Can you poop on your foot?”
Dealing with an ostomy, in my experience, is like having a baby boy butt attached to my abdomen. You may wonder why I feel that I must...
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