I have to admit, yesterday was a bad day for me. The past month, quite frankly, has been its own special hell, but most of that isn’t my story to tell. Yesterday is mine to tell and I think I’m ready to tell it. Recently, a …
Tag: desmoid tumor
What You Getting The Covid Vaccine Means To Me
I got poked on Thursday. The best kind of poke you can get during a pandemic. I got the vaccine. According to the stack of papers they handed me before said poke, I received the Pfizer. In a weird sort of doomsday kismet, both my husband …
Relax Into It
I’ve been having trouble with the cold, my Floridian blood is too thin to bear this unrelenting freeze. A friend of mine who is all too aware of my plight, a fragrant and fetching Mississippi magnolia who was transplanted many years ago to an icy Nordic …
Homeschooling While Sick
I have this memory in my head, a happy vision of an otherwise grueling time. My ten-year-old towhead, grinning from ear to ear. I can hear the giggles if I close my eyes. His English lesson that day came in the form of a rousing game …
Hurry Up and Wait
I collected another bracelet last week. I added another paper one to the pile, the kind you have to cut off your wrist after a long day in oncology. I collect them. I don’t know why, but I add them to a growing stack right after …
A Scanxiety Timeline
It’s that time of the year again, folks. It’s scan time! For those of you who don’t know, scan time is the time where us folks with oddly multiplying cells get raked over with a fine toothed comb to see if our cells are, in fact, …
I Need You To Stop Trying To ‘Help’ Me
I was polite the first time I was offered long distance reiki as a cure for my disease. I even recall saying thank you. I was newly diagnosed. I needed all the help I could get. And, after all, she was just ‘helping.’ The second offer …
When Your Sick Friends Need You, This Is All You Have To Do
Scan time is upon us me once again. In three days I’ll drive three hours to sit in a waiting room and wait impatiently for someone to call my name. I’ll answer all the questions I’ve answered too many times before. No, I’m not claustrophobic. No, …
Read More "When Your Sick Friends Need You, This Is All You Have To Do"
Giving New Another Try
This post is the fifth in a series, The Other Side of Being Sick, chronicling my path to learning to be well once again. You can read all the posts in this series by clicking here. I got my hair cut this weekend. Or my ‘hairs’ …
