Today I walked!
I began walking for exercise almost nine years ago, when my youngest son was still in a stroller. I’m not a ‘going to the gym’ sorta...
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Summer's Over
Well, not really. But here in Southern California, school is starting, so it feels like our summer season is coming to a close. ...
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Dark
PreBlog Note: I hesitated before posting this blog because as it turns out, the depression that I share was indeed a side effect of the...
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Time To Get Filled
I’m not talking about going to fill up my car with gas. Or being filled with emotion. Or being full from a meal. Nope, now when I’m...
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Three down...
Boy does this suck. I was told early on that the effects of chemo are cumulative and that recovery time and intensity of the side effects...
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An Ode to Mom(my)
I lay on my couch, curled up in the fetal position, feeling a pain and a weakness like never before. The life has been sucked out of me....
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Hair today...
It wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. Maybe because I was so hopped up on chemo drugs and all the meds to help battle the side...
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Chemo Step By Step
I was always curious if chemo was really the way it appears in the movies. Was it painful? Did you feel the drugs going in?So I thought...
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I'm loving normal!
Lately I’ve been so involved with my own stuff that I haven’t surfaced to see what’s going on in the world around me. Understandable,...
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Ahhh….so this is all the cancer stuff…
Before getting cancer, I was curious when I saw others dealing with their own cancer. I wondered what they felt like? We all know that...
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How does one approach chemotherapy?
I’m days away from my first chemo treatment. And while my busy life has been a wonderful distraction, I’m very aware that my body is...
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An Anniversary
Remember when you first fell in love with your life partner? When I look back on that time, it seems we experienced everything through...
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Journey to Acceptance...Being Bald
F*CK, F*CK, F*CK! I’m not someone who uses curse words. I believe that words carry weight and I try to choose them carefully. But after...
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Update
I found out chemotherapy is the next step on my journey. 5 months, starting in a couple of weeks. We were hoping I’d be able to avoid it,...
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Update
Good news! The Tumor Board (yes, there is such a thing!) met and determined my second surgery is NOT necessary. Yay! So now I move...
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Lessons so far…
It has been a little over six weeks since that lump revealed itself to me and so much learning has come forward. Although a breast cancer...
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One year. Should I keep going?
One year ago I made a commitment to myself to write one blog every week. Today, marks my 48th blog! It’s kind of fun to look back on my...
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Watermelon
I spent the past couple weeks writing a blog and then I decided it’s just too much. Life has been too much lately. The news is too sad...
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School Days
I woke up the other day and the air smelled different. We’d been experiencing some pretty hot weather in LA, but this particular morning...
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How have devices impacted your life?
I got a text the other day from the Producer of a show that my son’s performing in this summer. She wanted to share that she had to...
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