We all need to hang out with Happy because Grumpy is calling the shots right now 😳
"I'm a ho, I'm a ho, so off to wound care I go...." The first day I have ventured out in awhile and only because I had a doctor...
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Fever New Year!
What would a new year be for me without a fever?🙄 I feel it would be pretty great but time will tell if that ever happens. Maybe this...
Gettin’ it from behind.
Face down, ass up is not the way I like people to have conversations about me or more specifically the wounds in my gluteal region. I go...
Don’t shit where you eat.
It's easier to do what I say in the title of this blog post if you have an ostomy, at least it's contained. Get togethers around the...
Ho, ho, ho…
My dog Cooper hasn't let me dress him up in years but it's cold today and his usual attempts to thwart me have seemed to disappear. I...
Not so bad.
As I slowly peel away the "mehs" and "blahs" of the last couple weeks I have had some lowered volume festive moments. I even made cookies...
That time I had a volcano on my ass
Last week was not great. I felt crappy, constipated and fevery. The other day my right butt cheek felt tender but I blamed Pilates and my...
Too Hot To Handle: The constipation diarrheas
Charles walked in on me as I was watching the latest season of "Too Hot To Handle" on Netflix, yet another terrible reality show I watch....
Another day, another lab result.
"Your white blood cells are high! Why?!" My oncologist asks me, eyes wide over her mask. She has asked me this before, the last time was...
One more time for those in the back…Our work is never done until we are.
Of course this is just my opinion as a human and a body worker of 20 years but seriously, there is always something that we can improve,...
Home holidazed
We ate mashed potatoes and turkey, visited with family, played some music and walked on the Astoria riverfront. We spent 5 days at a home...
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...
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...
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