Cinderella. We all know the story. She was relegated to the life of a handmaiden after her father died and her evil stepmother took over the house, making her two wretched daughters the ‘fair maidens’ of the household. Cindy had a serendipitous encounter with Prince Charming and some mice. A Fairy Godmother got involved, and poof!…
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House Arrest
So I just wanted to take a minute to say how nice it has been meeting and knowing all of you. I will be hibernating in my house for the next 6 months so, BYEEEE! I gotta say, I am shocked by how intensely baldness has hit me. At the risk of sounding horribly vain,…
Mic Drop Minivan
I know what you are thinking. Could this chick get any sexier? Yes, yes I can. I have a minivan. BOOM. Normally when I emerge from the van-of-mini, I look just like every other suburban mom. But now that I look like Krusty the Clown, I am receiving quite a few sideways glances. I wrote…
Dear Mr. Hemsley UPDATE
BEHOLD THE POWER OF SOCIAL MEDIA————— So I won. Why isn’t there an exclamation point after that, you wonder? Because I won. I get a fancy, human hair wig. Don’t get me wrong. I am excited and very, very proud that my persistence and communication worked. I have built myself a platform from which I wield…
Twilight Sparkle
When I was a little girl I was obsessed with My Little Ponies. These were not the MLPs of today, who are slender, beautiful and sassy. My ponies were chubby, cute and lovable. I am sort of embarrassed to admit this, but at the height of my ponydom, I had 73 of these little plastic, equine toys….
Pop Pop Fizz
Chapter 1: Pop I slept last night! It wasn’t the sleep of my dreams (see what I did there?), but all things considered, it was pretty good. I woke up feeling not only human, but sort of normal. I languished in bed for a while listening to my kids’ cheery voices playing some sort of…
Top Ten
Tonight’s Top Ten Category is: Top 10 Exciting Chemo Side Effects So Far Number 10: Bone Pain- Most likely from the Neulasta shot meant to bolster white blood cell production. Adult growing pains never felt so horrible! Number 9: Itchy Scalp- Instead of enjoying your hair for the last few days you have it, why not…
White Flag
You guys. This cancer stuff–I fear I am hovering just above the edge of something and I don’t like it. I don’t know what it is, where it is going to take me, but it feels ominous. Surgery seems easy, in hindsight. Healing wounds and binding musculature back together is so straightforward. You feel the…
Because Solidarity Doesn’t Take a Vote- Guest Blogger!
I’m so excited to have my first guest blogger, Tina Hutton Selkirk. I went to high school with Tina, but we did not know each other terribly well. When I saw her again recently as she will describe below, she was a welcome ray of Sunshine in this crappy bag of shit I stepped into. …
Chem-Oh No You Didn’t
First of all, I have been waiting to use this blog post title for over 2 months. Feeling super-awesome to know the time has come. Here is how Chemo Day #1 went down. My husband, sister, mother and I headed to the Kellogg Cancer Center where we met my friend and photographer Katie Gierke of…
Double Black Diamond
I attended college at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The funniest thing about that, is that I am what one might refer to as, ‘indoorsy‘. Me and the outside don’t get along super great so to choose Boulder where the most prominent pastime (other than binge drinking), is outdoor sports, wasn’t a match made…
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