*Content warning: Infertility, miscarriage, still births I wrote one post strictly about my infertility in October of 2019, just six months after losing my ability to birth a child. (You can read it here.) In it, I wrote that I didn't feel anything about infertility, that I know many struggling with it, but not me! …
I've been dragging my feet about writing a post. I had a brief health scare these past couple months, and creating anything, especially writing feels impossible when I'm in my fear and anxiety. It all started with my first ever mammogram. I was just sure I had breast cancer when they called me to say …
*Button push warning (One of my beloved aunts would tease me for worrying about offending everyone 🙂 but I use button instead of tr!gger warning because it feels less well, button pushing): Infertility, ovarian cancer So April 16 was my cancer recurrence diagnosis anniversary. I missed the day this year, didn't even think about it …
Being almost three years out after cancer treatment and surgery, writing an update on my health feels weird. Like who wants to read about my health now that I am cancer-free? As you may already know, the more times a person has cancer, the more likely they are to have it recur, which is what …
Hi friends. I haven't written about my medical status on here in a long while, mostly because I've been feeling great. However, about a month ago, I started having some pains in my abdomen that felt like ovarian cancer pain. Though I see my gynologic oncologist every three months, I gave them a call. I …
{^^^This was me the week I started the blog!} The seven year anniversary of this blog happened earlier this week. When I look back on where I was, how I was when I started this blog, I am in awe. This blog began as a travel blog because my dream job then was to be …
This time last year, I was awaiting a surgery during which I was sure I was going to die. I tried everything I knew to attempt to separate my fear from my intuition, but they still slither inside me, intertwined. I was waiting to have my kidney removed, to have my bladder resected. I was …
My poor therapist has listened to me carry on about death and about being scared of it for months now. Hyper-vigilance is a part of life after cancer. Is that pain my cancer coming back? Am I not hungry because my cancer is back? Is this the time it's going to kill me? Part of …
Daisy-Head Maezie 