About

I’m a 38-year-old wife and mother of two young girls who in July 2013 was diagnosed with Stage IV colon cancer. This is me writing about living with that diagnosis.

If you are curious about the details of my diagnosis, treatment and medical status, you should be able to quickly glean that information by clicking on the appropriate category (as listed on the right sidebar), which will bring you to the relevant posts. However, as with any chronic illness, there is not much to say about the medical side of things on an ongoing basis. Patience is the name of the game as I undergo treatment and wait for the next scan and blood tests. In the meantime, I ride the emotional roller coaster that is life with cancer. Therefore, most of my blog posts are musings about and reflections on life, family, love, faith, strength and all the other intangibles that make living at once exhilarating and terrifying, I’ve listed on a separate page my favorite of those posts (click here), the ones that I reread from time to time when the voices in my head become too loud and the fear has a vice grip on my throat. My hope is that you can find some solace in those musings and reflections too.

This article, published in an online medical journal, provides a good outline of my story and my life philosophy.