Week 3 A.D. Almost immediately after my first appointments with KU, I received a call from my Nurse Navigator to schedule a biopsy appointment. I would go in on Friday, December 12. Only one week out. They aren’t messing around. It’s half alarming and half reassuring. I tell myself it’s as if they all know… Continue reading Fear, Friends & Pulp Fiction
Week 2 A.D. (after diagnosis). My oldest daughter, Jillian, blessed me with a major distraction to my assumed cancer diagnosis. We kicked off the month of December with surgery to correct her deviated septum and tilted crus cartilage at the inside tip of her nose. It was a long-time coming since she busted her nose… Continue reading A Second Opinion
I drove home from the mammogram in a blur. I’m sure it was muscle memory that got me there. My throat was tight the whole way, but I have almost no memory of the drive. Besides a voice to text to my sisters. “I might have breast cancer.” The next step would be to get… Continue reading Week 1 A.D. (After Diagnosis)
*Warning: There's some cursing. As there will be in this entire blog* After about a year of owning this website blog domain, I'm finally inspired to write. It's not been due to a lack of ideas or thoughts to share but because of a voice in my head telling me, "It's not important." It took… Continue reading This is not where it starts, but where it continues.
Midlife Mamacita 