CATCHING UP

A funny thing happens when you give out your blog’s URL. You visit it and realize it hasn’t been updated in almost a year. OOPS! Truthfully, though, its just because I’ve been living life and feeling so grateful for what feels like a second chance […]

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ANXIOUS BUSY

When I was first diagnosed and dipped my toes into breast cancer support groups, I found myself very perplexed by the attitudes of many women who had completed treatment and were in remission. They seemed to be just an anxious about things as I was […]

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IT’S JUST HAIR

It’s been over four months since I finished chemo. It’s been a week and a half since I finished radiation. Life is quickly starting to feel a little bit closer to normal. Diagnosis feels like an entire lifetime ago. So does getting word I had […]

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RECLAIM THE DAY

As an adult, I’ve come to love St. Patrick’s Day. I’m not Irish. I don’t go out and get drunk. But for years working downtown Nashville (before it became the insanity it is today), it came to be a night that, no matter what day […]

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FINDING THE BLESSINGS

My doctor told me that six weeks past chemo seems to be a sweet spot for their patients. It’s the time when they’ve been told “things get better.” Can confirm. Last Friday marked the six-week mark post-chemo. I thought I’d been doing well, until this […]

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LITTLE THINGS

This coming Friday is my last round of chemotherapy for breast cancer. Following this will be surgery, (probably) radiation and continued immunotherapy. I’ve been a ball of anxiety for the last week. I’d read about women feeling anxious, and even depressed, at the end of […]

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WELLBEING

New year, new me has a totally different feel to it for me this year. It’s not something that happens at the stroke of midnight on January 1. It’s something that will happen over the course of the next… however long. Since I’ve been in […]

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PLOT TWIST

Much like my initial Facebook post, I don’t know how to even start this. But just like that post, I’ll just say it. I have breast cancer. It’s gotten oddly easier to say over the last week since I got the news, while sitting at […]

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