This post is the first in a series, The Other Side of Being Sick, chronicling my path to learning how to be well once again. We relocated our entire life just months after my tumor was declared dead. An emotional whirlwind of boxes, paperwork, and teary …
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I Really Hope You Enjoy This
Recently I published a post titled, On Being Well After Being So Sick. Now forgive me for being a bit boastful, but I thought it was a well written piece that thoughtfully covered my recent emotional struggles with the complex process of learning how to live …
On Being Well After Being So Sick
After the daily worry and fear, how do you live a life being well when it's been so long?
We Have Been Here Before
I have been here before. Unsure. Quivering. Shaking in my shoes. I am afraid. I have been here before. And so have you. Not knowing. Desperate. Alone. I have been here before. And come through. So have you. I have been here before. Praying. Begging. Pleading …
My Body Is My Home
This morning I weighed myself. 151.8 pounds. The heaviest I have ever weighed while not growing a human inside me. I guess that explains why I can no longer button my pants. I’m heavier than my husband now, for the first time in 25 years. The …
My Tumor Made Me More Political
Sitting at my kitchen table one day, surrounded by a mess of scribbled pages, I made the decision to start a blog and document my experience with a desmoid tumor diagnosis. I wanted to help people with the disease, as I had been helped by so …
In The In Between
A mountain was building cell by cell. It grew bigger and bigger still as summer persisted weeks into fall. Traipsing through the yard with bare feet. Lying in the grass, our skin inhaling the sun. No one ever noticed the mound that grew beneath us. Not …
