Two Years Later

“Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities.  Dreaming, after all is a form of planning”. – Gloria Steinem “You are a very healthy human.” – Zoe Weinstein, MD  672 days earlier, Dr. Weinstein’s words were quite the opposite as they were today.  That late March day in 2016, I sat at my desk in my office full of hope and full of positive thoughts that the lump in my left breast was not in fact cancerous and was merely a benign fibroid. Zoe’s phone call that afternoon suddenly turned my world upside down.  “You have Read More

Spring Blips

“There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature. The assurance that dawn comes after night, and Spring after Winter.” – Rachel Carson Spring has always been by one of my favorite seasons, falling second only to the crisp days of Fall. It’s the season of new green grass, blooming flowers and the time to plant new seeds, both in our gardens and in our lives. Spring 2016 was a season filled with what would one year later be referred merely to as a “blip”. It was the season of my cancer diagnosis; the season that my cancer Read More

One Year Later

One Year Later One year ago today, my life changed in a way I had least expected it to. March 10, 2016. I woke up to a warmer, spring-like day, got the kids ready for school, walked down to the bus stop taking in the fresh air, blue skies, and the kids, excitedly recognizing the fresh green blades of grass that had recently popped up from the now unfrozen ground of what was a very cold winter. It was a normal day. Until my 2:00 pm appointment with Julie. I was so excited to see her; not many people can Read More