In December of 2016 I was diagnosed with Stage IIB breast cancer. After a bilateral mastectomy, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy, I am now cancer free and blogging, once a month, about my continued recovery (as long as there’s some news to share). To read my whole cancer story in chronological order, click here. Happy March, …
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You’ve heard me say it before, but I have perfectionist tendencies. I don’t say that in a joking manner either, because perfectionism is not always an easy thing to deal with. Luckily, it is not a pervasive part of my personality or mental health, but it impacts my life in one very annoying way: Perfectionist …
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For the past year, I have been blogging about my life as a breast cancer fighter and, now, survivor. If you need to catch up on my story, please check out this page for the chronological list of posts. I can’t believe that another month has passed! And yes, there was a little bit of …
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It has been one year to the day that I heard the three words that totally changed my reality from here on out: “It is cancer.” For some reason, I felt like I wanted to document my year of fighting cancer with one snapshot every day. I wasn’t perfect…if you look closely, there are numbers …
Have you always wanted to add a beautiful ribbon bow to a gift, but haven’t been sure where to start? What if I told you that it can actually be FASTER to tie a ribbon bow to a package than it is to mess with curling ribbon and sticky bows?! Well, that’s EXACTLY what I’m …
So, today’s my birthday. It’s also a new anniversary. One year ago, I treated myself to a long shower for my birthday. Today, I did the same thing. One year ago, I found a tumor next to my nipple. Today I checked out the stretch marks on the incisions where my nipples used to be. …
As I’ve shared before on the blog, our family has experienced one of the worst moves ever. Like……EVER, ever…. It was a mess. Fast forward ten months, when our family was ready to get all of our stuff out of storage and into our new home. Trying to identify and unpack our entire household’s boxes …
