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Milestones
I just realized that Sunday was 10 months exactly since my mastectomy. And tomorrow will be 2 weeks exactly since reconstruction. I’m trying hard not to think about the fact that exactly 3 weeks after...
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Yesterday
Yesterday was busy, and I was so occupied with celebrating the removal of the last surgical drains (HOORAY!), I didn’t fully process all that happened in the 3 doctors’ visits. Also, in the interest of...
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It’s my cancer-versary
One year ago today the bottom fell out of my carefully-ordered life when I was diagnosed with breast cancer. To say that a lot has happened in the last year is an utter waste of words. I’m not sure...
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Happy birthday to me!
Today’s my day. All mine. Happy birthday to me. It’s been pointed out to me that in addition to being my birthday, today is the official start of hurricane season. Coincidences are funny. Birthdays...
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At the ballpark, again
Last summer was pretty bad for me and my family. It started innocently enough, with a bilateral mastectomy at age 40 on May 13th, and while I healed quickly and nicely from that, it all went downhill...
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A whole new ball game
I’m as nervous as a cat. On a hot tin roof. Payton’s All Star team was one game away from being district champions last night, and they went down in flames. We’d already beaten the West University team...
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The much-anticipated results of last night’s game
It was do-or-die for the mighty First Colony Red Raiders last night, and the cause of my nervous stomach all day yesterday. I would love to keep everyone in suspense about the outcome, and bury it at...
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Extra! Extra! Read all about the mighty Red Raiders
I really should have posted this last night, as soon as we got home from the game, but I had to go straight to the defibrillator after suffering several small heart attacks watching that nail-biter. It...
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Tyler, day 1
We arrived in Tyler safe & sound yesterday, just in time to have dinner with a couple of families from the team at Chili’s. Payton & I had lunch at Chili’s while we waited for Trevor to wrap up...
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Packing up
It’s out last week in our house. Things have been pretty busy around here, hence the silence on the blog front. Hopefully that will change as we get settled in our temporary quarters and construction...
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Tyler, day 1
We arrived in Tyler safe & sound yesterday, just in time to have dinner with a couple of families from the team at Chili’s. Payton & I had lunch at Chili’s while we waited for Trevor to wrap up...
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