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From Gotcha to Sweet 16 to an Unexpected Adventure
Apparently, I’ve been a little “quiet” lately.
That hasn’t gone completely unnoticed… and yeah, it’s been a bit of a stretch health-wise. But I covered that elsewhere. Today, I just want to tell a story.
We recently celebrated Elphie’s first “Gotcha Day,” and at the same time, our cat Mo quietly turned 16. If you knew how his story started, you’d understand why that number means a lot to us.
We were celebrating both on a camping trip… and the trip home?
Let’s just say it didn’t quite go according to plan.
And then we heard it…
Don’t Just Say It – Live It
It’s always been inevitable that it would get hard at some point. I knew very little about cancer when I was diagnosed. It was something that happened to people. Some got through it, others didn’t. I lost my grandmother to it four days before my fourteenth birthday....
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Cancer Fight
In February 2023 I was diagnosed with stage 4 metastatic cancer. Part of my coping mechanism was to write about the experience. This is where those stories live.
Fight For Your Life
After nearly two years of learning about life after a cancer diagnosis, there are a few things to share regarding continuing to live your life, no matter what.
Just for fun
This is where I write about stuff that is not directly tied to cancer, health stuff and what I cover in the other categories. More like a story time than anything else.
other recent posts
Fight For Your Life IV — If You’re Going Through Hell, Keep Going
We all face our own versions of hell — disease, loss, seasons that strip us bare. You can’t live there. You claw forward, inch by inch if you have to. This is my story of refusing to quit, and the poem that’s helped me keep moving when the fire got close.
Fight for Your Life III: Be Your Own Best Advocate
Whether you’re facing a major life challenge like cancer or navigating the complex systems that shape your health, career, or relationships, one truth remains: no one will fight for you like you can. Over the past two years, I’ve been living inside the world of...
Dear Cancer – Two Years Later
So that’s where we’re at. It seems like we’ve settled in for the long game. This is not a fight that is going to go one way or the other any time soon.
Fight For Your Life II – Give Yourself a Chance: Drop the Excess Weight
What I have learned is that EVERYTHING I thought I knew about diet was wrong. It’s not too much of a stretch to say that I had been lied to my entire life about proper nutrition, what was good and what was bad for me, and how to lose weight (spoiler alert, it has little to do with calories in/calories out and cardio exercise and much more about how much and when to eat.)
Fight For Your Life I – It Starts (and Ends) With Attitude
Since I started writing about this experience nearly two years ago, I have received a lot of feedback about my attitude. I have shown the ability to put a positive spin on just about any situation that we have encountered regardless of how serious and scary it might be. These drifting thoughts were new for me. I was not sure that I was ready to add my own attitude to the list of things I was dealing with.
The Wake Up Call and The Apology
Have you ever had one of those moments where you realize you’ve done something completely selfish and had no idea? One of those moments that make you stop and say, “Shit – I messed up.”? That happened to me a few days ago. I was working a long outdoor event. The...
Health Updates
As I stated in the last entry, this will be a post that is updated as information comes in about my health. If you found your way here, that means you read the last one and are somewhat interested in what's going on. We appreciate that. The latest updates will always...
Time For an Update and Time to Move Forward
It’s been five weeks or so since we received the test results from mid-June. The blogs that I’ve started since then have touched on gearing up for another fight, doubts and fears, and examinations into my motivations for ever starting the blog in the first place.
Being Positive – Part 2
This morning brought the moment of truth. The doctor walked into the room and gave us the quick synopsis of the PET results.
Being Positive – Part 1
Most of the writing I publish in my Blog has a process. I work on something, edit it, put it down for a few hours, pick it back up, tweak it a little, find an image that fits with it, copy and paste from Word to the Website, give it one last review and hit publish. ...