Cancer Chronicles is where humor, healing, and courage meet. These muses explore the raw and remarkable moments of survivorship—from the chemo daze to the last laughs that get us through. Through wit, honesty, and hope, this collection celebrates the stories that prove strength can coexist with softness, and that even in the hardest seasons, love always finds a way.
After a year of cancer treatment, laparoscopic surgery should have been a lap dance. They call it an oophorectomy just so I can use that word with you, oof! I’m tired and grumpy and missing my body parts. Yes, I gained back my fake boobs in the process, but they don’t feel like much of… Continue reading Oof! How Are You Doing?
We can’t go through life unscathed. Inevitably, we’ll be both patient and caregiver, or maybe both at the same time. Yet, it comes as such a big surprise. As if we weren’t expecting a health scare to disrupt our otherwise perfect lives. So maybe we should be asking ourselves, instead: which side are you on… Continue reading The Gift Exchange Somewhere Between Life & Death
I’m getting so frustrated re-remembering all that I forgot and reinventing myself. I forget that I had a trip to the underworld, and my brains, body, and emotions have had a run-in with Hades to prove it. I try to remember the chemo boards, the photos, the prayers. The community got me this far. I forgot.… Continue reading So You Never Forget You’ve Got A Friend
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