A curious thing happened this past week. An old friend popped up in Messenger on a grade school thread with random comments and photos. After days of this, I realized I started the thread a few years ago. It has been dormant for a while. I have been acutely aware of the people who have showed up for me through my cancer journey. I don’t post about it much on social media. I kind of think that…

So, I just came home from my annual eye exam. Easy peasy. One would think. Strike that. Who am I kidding? Life never gives me easy peasy. The eye exam with the tech was going on as usual. Eye puff, check. Reading a chart to the minuscule, check. Looking at dots, check. Getting weird yellow dye, check. The tech being close enough to smell my lunch, check. Then the tech wants the doc to take a…

From diagnosis day in August of 2023 others around me have been calling me a survivor. I have mixed feelings about this. So far, I’ve been through two surgeries, chemotherapy, radiation, and now I’m on my second aromatase inhibitor with a plethora of side effects that I struggle to cope with in my current everyday life. I took leave from work through the worst part of chemo and radiation from…