I’ve had a couple of people subtly (or not so subtly) point out that it’s been almost  a month since I last wrote.   The reasons for that seem good when I’m not writing. I’ve been working a lot, pushing myself in what I KNOW is an unnecessary but still very real need to prove that I’m […]

I’ll be quick because this way I update both of my parents on how my quarterly visit with my oncologist went with out calling either one, since they’ll both fuss over the fact that my voice still sounds like hell. I’m actually feeling much better from the cold that knocked me out late last week, […]

I know I’ve been quiet again for a while, but with Angelina Jolie’s big announcement last night, I feel like for the first time in a while I have something to say. See, I’ve been in a bit of a wallow.  And since the wallow has been more about self-loathing than anything else, it didn’t […]

Lately I’ve gotten this question a lot, so I just want to get this out there. No, I am not planning to keep the pixie cut. Thank you for those of you who think it really suits me, and brings out my eyes and all of that but when I look at the pixie in […]

Nobody’s gonna slow me down, oh no, I’ve got to keep on movin’! OK, so maybe I do need to slow down some days.  In general, I’m still doing well. The drains have been out a full week now, and on Thursday I get the stitches out and the tape off of my incisions. I’ve […]

My dog’s name is Fenway.  This is not because my family loves baseball, but because we truly love Boston. Two of the four years that I lived there we set the record for snowfall, so when the boy I met the first weekend I was at Boston University proposed, I told him that I’d marry […]

My husband hates it when that’s my answer to anything… especially via text. He can’t tell, is that the, “yes, but do so at your own peril” version, or the “meh, whatevs” version. I don’t see a little bit of mystery in a 20+ year relationship as a bad thing… But this week, I don’t […]

Another little update- this week has been going OK other than the drain thing.  I thought that the rule was less than 30 cc for 48 hours, so I was ALL excited to get Righty out today, since I’ve been putting out less than 20 cc per day. And did I mention that because the […]

Not the best title, but it’s really all I could think of when I woke up yesterday with DRAINS. I’m trying to stay positive, and know that they took out more skin & tissue so that I wouldn’t have jowls on my implants like I did before, and that if they didn’t give me drains, then I’d have […]

And a fire dance through the night! In 12 hours, I’ll be reporting to the hospital for my reconstruction.  How much I’m guessing I’ll sleep in those hours. Close to none. I’m feeling so many emotions, but are the forefront, are scared, anxious, excited. I check in at 9a tomorrow.  Surgery itself is scheduled to start […]