Category: thyroid

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,…

  • That time I had double cancer…

    PART 1 OF 3 In late summer of 2015, age 37, I was laying on my back for a massage with the talented Adinah Barlow, owner of Lifelong Wellness Center. I happened to look down at my stomach, and noticed that the area to the right of my bellybutton was slightly higher than the side…