One of the hardest things about cancer. Is having to meet your body as a stranger every single day. How are we feeling today? Will it be constant pain? Overwhelming fatigue? Will I be able to taste food today? Or even have an appetite? Will I have motor skills? Or be clumsy and trip over… Read more: When You Have Cancer, Your Body Becomes A Stranger

I didn’t expect my cancer diagnosis to require this much strategic planning. It’s not just how to squeeze chemotherapy and 100 oncology appointments between shuttling kids to school, loads of laundry, oh and working 35 hours a week. That’s actually the relatively easy part to figure out. It’s making the official “plan of care” and… Read more: Having Cancer Is More Strategic Than I Thought

It’s been a year, since I got the personal phone call from my GI doctor confirming what we already suspected since my colonoscopy three days before… it’s cancer. As soon as I heard my doctor’s voice over the phone, I knew. He wouldn’t be personally calling to say “the biopsy was negative”. It was just… Read more: My Diagnosis Timeline