Explore personal stories, milestones, and reflections from diagnosis to survivorship in one woman’s unforgettable breast cancer journey.
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
I have a hunch that these days we’re all lost boys to some extent or another. We’ve long since fallen out of sync with the pre-pandemic rat race, but without Peter Pan to lead us out of this, how are we supposed to do IRL (in real life)? I’m the last to know the trendy… Continue reading The Art of Reclaiming Your Lost Soul
Re-entering life after a major illness might be the most challenging part of the whole getting sick thing. It makes me scratch the hair that’s finally growing in and ask, “How do I belong?” I’ve got a lot of catching up to do to understand what’s been going on without me. But then I remind… Continue reading Lost in Na-nu Na-nu
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