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...
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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...
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...
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