Category: scar

Sharing my cancer story. It might be helpful, it might be interesting, it might be informative.

  • One year after surgery: a retrospective

    I’m still coming to terms with my new identity as a life-long cancer patient, as well as the transition from Librarian to not-Librarian. Most importantly, however, I have absolutely been loving being home after school with my daughter and eating dinner together. With my previous schedule, on an early day I’d get home at 6:45pm,…

  • Back to work

    I’ve been back at work for two weeks now, and it’s going really well! My abdomen is all healed up; I’m not having pain any more. I’m really glad I was able to take three whole months off work to recuperate; I needed it. To illustrate, in early December when my family was dressing the…

  • My support network

    As the year winds down, I am preparing to return to work on January 3. I am so incredibly lucky to have had over 3 months to recover from my surgery. Here is a starter list of everything I am grateful for: What’s next for me: I’m going to continue to have monthly injections of…