I wrote a post a few weeks back talking about how unsettled I was feeling as a result of people I know either getting diagnosed with their first bout of cancer or a recurrence. At my age, you know that it’s only a matter of time you start hearing news like this. But it doesn’t make it any easier to… Read more »
I’ve been a little quiet over the past few weeks for a variety of reasons. One, my dad’s birthday was about two weeks ago and frankly, I wasn’t sure how I was going to react. As I expected, I really missed calling him and wishing him a happy birthday and I know that my mom had it even worse than… Read more »
I intended to write up an interesting article I came across. Y’all know how much I love science and delving into the details of new melanoma research. But as I sat down to type it, I started writing something entirely different. A few more people I know have been diagnosed (or rediagnosed) with some form of cancer in the past… Read more »
I’ve been a little quiet on the blog front recently as I’m adjusting to my new job. This past week, I was invited to attend a workshop for a work project and shockingly, I now have a boss who thinks I should actually attend meetings that I’m invited to. So I was excited (but a bit nervous honestly) to be… Read more »
Well, last week was interesting and by interesting, I mean it was a crazy complicated clusterf*ck. Honestly, I better have gotten all of my 2019 drama out of the way. Although my blog usually covers cancer and travel, I need to unpack what went down last week; and since my blog is, um my blog, this is the outlet I’m… Read more »
Let’s be honest, 2018 was not a year that I would want to relive. And now that we’re in a new year, I can look back with a sigh of relief that I managed to get through that year without a recurrence of melanoma. It’s not to say that simply flipping a calendar page (wait, do people younger than my… Read more »
This week, I celebrated the four year anniversary of my excision. I’ve reached a pretty big milestone in terms of being able to be cautiously optimistic that perhaps my pink melanoma won’t return. At least it isn’t lurking in another patch of skin, although it could be sitting dormant in my cells. I think about where I was in my… Read more »
Welcome to the first installment of my trip to Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore! I’m about a week into my adventure and figured I better start writing things down before I forget. There’s so much to see and experience in this part of the world that it would be easy for things to blur together. If you like my ramblings, read… Read more »
Last year was one of the best travel years I’ve ever had. This year, well, while I did do some traveling, it was mostly either for work or up to Ohio or for my birthday/mourning my dad (although I did get to do my Florida Adam Ant midlife concert tour earlier in the year too). But I have another trip… Read more »
It’s not a stretch to say that this has been one of the most challenging years I’ve had since my melanoma diagnosis in 2014. Between losing my dad to having some significant battles over getting the water damage to my condo repaired to recent corporate developments that may leave my position “redundant” sometime around the holidays, it just seems like… Read more »