Explore personal stories, milestones, and reflections from diagnosis to survivorship in one woman’s unforgettable breast cancer journey.
Never saw that movie. Why bother? My life has all the sci-fi/horror elements it needs to recreate the film just fine. Chemo invaded my body two and a half weeks ago, and I’m sure that’s when the aliens snatched away my perfectly good body and replaced it with a subpar shell. I didn’t notice right… Continue reading Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Wreckage is on my mind lately. You know how the hymn goes: “Amazing grace how sweet the sound That saved a wreck like me.” Chemo left me a train wreck, which reminds me of a sick joke that I’d tell as a kid. I’d laugh so hard I couldn’t get out the punch line. I… Continue reading Amazing Grace
“I know an old lady who swallowed a fly!” It’s as nonsensical as life, so we sang it to our children. “And I don’t know why she swallowed a fly.” She minded her own business and went about her affairs. Until she swallowed so many animals, she needed to catch the cow. Only, it was… Continue reading To Catch The Cow
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