Tis the season for gift giving and who better to give you advice about what to buy your cancer-y friends and family than Grancer?! Below, I will share with you some ideas to help you get through this hectic gift-giving onslaught. Grancer’s Breast Cancer Gift Giving Guide: Cute button-up shirts one size bigger than we would…
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Hairvolution
Look! My hair is finally long enough for a hair accessory!! When people see me lately, often the first thing they say is, ‘wow, look how long your hair is!’ This makes me giggle. I suppose they are correct, if you are looking at the fact that I was stone-cold bald 1.5 months ago and…
Blanksgiving
I know what you are expecting from me today: #blessed. I just can’t do it. I am feeling way more: #stressed. Sure, there are a million things that I could tell you I am sincerely thankful for, but today, I feel a stronger sentiment than being thankful. I feel resentful. Now please note–I wish I…
Your Friendly Local Cancerlebrity
A funny thing has started to happen. About once or twice a week, I will get recognized while I am out and about. Now let me clarify, I am just your average minivan driving, yoga pant wearing suburban mom, but since I have plastered my face on an overwhelmingly candid blog, people have started to…
Aesthetics and Athletics
For those of you who haven’t read every word of every blog I’ve written, allow me to tell you that the t-shirt I am wearing in the above photo is a professional photo of my God-given breasts. I had t-shirts made of my breasts for all of my family to wear to my mastectomy cause…
Hurricane Cancer
I am a bit of a scaredy cat. I get spooked really easily (i.e. Phil Collins’ Land of Confusion, which could be blamed for ruining my entire childhood). Mix this with anxiety and you have a cute little cocktail of I cannot even think about that or I’ll never sleep again. Here is a short list…
Chemo Eve (Ho Ho Horrible)
***Pills pictured above clockwise from top left: Prozac (you try navigating cancer without an anti-depressant/anxiety, judgy-pants), Astragalus, My Community Host Defense Mushroom supplement, 2 steroids, Turkey Tail Root Mushroom supplement, Claritin. Not Pictured: Vitamin D, which fell off my head. (And PS- that is a shadow on my noggin not a scary bruise.) So tomorrow…
When You Are Bald, Everything Is a Hat
I am sort of a trendsetter. I am quite sure that after posting this image of me wearing half of a cardboard fruit snacks box as a hat, a trend will be born. I am naturally bald at this point, but have had this bizarre ostrich hair on the top of my head that somehow…
Downward Spiral
2/3 of my kids have been pretty sick with strep etc. for the last 10 days. As a parent, I am in danger of catching their germs. As a cancer patient in chemotherapy, I am fucked. Every day that I have woken up feeling normal I have been amazed. It’s been 10 days. How could…
Uninspired
I haven’t been blogging. I haven’t felt I have had anything of real interest to say. Here are a couple of blog concepts I’ve been tumbling around: More general complaining Cake! My kids have been sick all week. SOS- Feelin’ chubby (see; cake!) Guilt New problem with my arm As you can see, none of…
Call Me Maybe
I have a lot of appointments these days. Between follow-ups with my four active physicians (surgeon, primary doc, oncologist and plastic surgeon) and my physical therapy appointments for the damage to my right arm, I see someone at least three times a week. The hospital I am working with is very good. They have many…
Oddities
A lot of bizarre things come about when you are dealing with cancer. Here’s a lil list I’m compiling of said oddities: I had to switch sides of the bed. As a long time right-sider, switching to the left has been strange but needed to happen as my right arm remains compromised by cording and…
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