My Stories

I’m not alone. I’m not the only one who knows this secret. The power of community. PLEASE check this out! It will give you a smile. Look...

Today is day 4 of round 4. The end of the administration of chemo, but the beginning of getting “sick.” And chemo has a cumulative...

What are you listening to is a new popular question. I was never asked this question until last year and now it’s pretty constant. Often...

I read the NYTimes Evening briefing last night. Its been a good month since I’ve read the news, And then I saw the news. And DAMN. Geez. ...

I took a course on Semester At Sea that really intrigued me. It was a newer field in psychology (scoffed by many, probably still is),...

I’m shaking. Literally shaking. What are the odds? Seriously what are the odds? I can’t even begin to figure out how to calculate them....

Steve I have a new nightly routine. We still hang, but it ends differently. This I could never have predicted. Steve stays upstairs to...

Candy. I announced that our family no longer eats candy. I didn’t say we won’t eat ice cream nor white pasta, just candy. This did not go...

Play has definitely gotten more complicated. Our favorite game to play is “snuggle puppy.” This imaginative play game was invented by...

September is around the corner. September has always been a BIG month. Start of school, back to school nights, etc. My days in September...

Sloan’s protocol is 5 rounds of chemo and surgery. Followed by radiation + immunotherapy, and then a vaccine (which is not one shot, but...

I was writing the below BEFORE I got the call from Steve about surgery being postponed and starting chemo Thursday. Had a lot of freak...

We just heard from the surgical team. They have decided to do another round of chemo before surgery. We start on Thursday, round 4. It is...

Stem cells runneth over. At least they do in this household. We were told that we would need at least two days of stem cell harvesting....

I will start with the flair to my right. The right side of my body. #1: Evil eye ring. This ring found me in the fall of 2011. On the...

I talk about this a lot. The flair I speak of is as in the flair showcased in the classic and BEST movie, Office space . You know...

Today we harvest stem cells. And before you even offer to give us yours, we did that whole embryo thing too. That stuff doesn’t seem to...