Health, Cancer & Recovery
Radiation Therapy Sucks
Learning what radiation treatment really involves as an aunt begins it — the isolation, the side effects, and the statistics behind the decision.
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Everything I have written down
Further back in the archive.
Motherhood & Family
Vulnerable Words
The moment a grandmother’s phone call revealed that the adults you look up to are frightened too, and a grandfather quietly having a stroke.
Health, Cancer & Recovery
Get It Out (Papillary Thyroid Cancer Thyroidectomy Surgery)
A day-by-day account of papillary thyroid cancer surgery: the fasting, the nerves in the OR, the recovery, and saying goodbye to a thyroid named Harry.
Health, Cancer & Recovery
Anxiety and Thyroid Cancer combined
Facing a thyroid cancer diagnosis while living with anxiety, and the spiral of worry that arrives before a surgery you cannot talk yourself out of.
Motherhood & Family
A Strong Woman Deserves a Strong Man
A Valentine’s Day reflection on a marriage tested by illness and hard years, and what it looks like to keep choosing each other through the chaos.
Mental Health & Hard Seasons
Let Me Tell You a Thing or Two About Depression
Twenty years of antidepressants, counsellors and cycles, written plainly by someone still in it, with resources for anyone who needs them today.
Motherhood & Family
What is an Amanda-ism? Really.
What an Amanda-ism actually is: the clumsy, bumbling moments that started with a best friend and became the running joke of this whole blog.
Health, Cancer & Recovery
Cancer, I Hate you. Part 2
Continuing an aunt's breast cancer story: the surgery, the first day of chemotherapy, and what actually helps when you are the support person.
Health, Cancer & Recovery
Autoimmune Diseases. I think.
Years of fatigue, mono, chronic strep and unexplained symptoms, and the long uncertain road toward an autoimmune answer that has not fully arrived.