Introducing Roxy! You’ve met Heather and Sophie … it was time to introduce the wig I chose – or rather, it chose me – to be most like my real hair. I’ve always had curly hair – but wanted straight hair – the grass is always greener … I would spend hours blow-drying and feathering…
Category: Pink Dot Detour
Cancer doesn’t see racism … or does it?
I ran into my neighbour Carrie yesterday … she is lovely. Inside and out. We always run into each other when she is completing a spiritual journey and I am beginning one. I treasure her words, her advice and her friendship. She is brilliant and I have the utmost respect for her. I crave and…
The High Co$t of Cancer
I have been trying to piece together a CAD$ price tag on my cancer treatment since my surgery. I’ve asked my surgeon, Dr. X, what my diagnosis and surgery cost. He threw some numbers around – $1k for the OR for an hour, triple that for the attending staff, the nuclear dyes – but he…
Meet Sophie!
Hi everyone! This is Sophie … if you are following along on my Pink Dot Detour with Triple Negative Breast Cancer, you know that I lost all my hair 13 days after my first chemo infusion. Each wig – I currently have five with two more in the works – brings out different characteristics of my…
Oh, Heather … You didn’t!
Do honey browns with blonde highlights have more fun? You bet they do! Even with cancer! That’s me … second from the left in front wearing white like an angel … Thirteen days after I had my first chemo infusion, I lost most of my hair and had the rest of it shaved off. Saying Ciao…
Pink Dot Detour
Really, this detour started about six months ago. Or maybe a year or two ago. Or seven. Who the hell knows? Maybe I was tapped on the breast right at the beginning. We will never know. I go back and forth in my mind wondering how … when … why. Can I take the liberty…
Heart of Stone
Had lunch with a long time girlfriend today – her boy and mine grew up together playing baseball. She and I are both single Moms doing our very best to raise our boys (for the most part) alone. The boys were too caught up in their conversation to notice us, so our topics dove into…
Cleansing the mind, body & soul
If you have been with me on this journey for more than a few years, you know that I usually do a “cleanse” in January. Not January 1st – when all the delicious leftovers are still in the fridge and the Christmas candy and baking is still hanging around. No, I usually pick the first…
One Little Word
Grateful (that 2016 is done!). Over ten years ago, Ali Edwards started a tradition of choosing one little word to lean into and live with for the coming year. One Little Word has been a beautiful spark which enriches my life daily, and provides an interesting backwards glance at years gone by. I just have…
Another Face to the One-Year Challenge
So … that thing about celibacy for one year? It’s more of a guideline, n’est-ce pas? *grin* “I’m in!” then “I’m out!” Memories of a Seinfeld discussion with a work colleague. Whoever said the path to redemption was a straight line?! However, I did reach one spiritual plateau with this one-year challenge. I’m so fed…
One-Year Challenge
Yesterday, I received the message twice from two separate sources that I need to take a year off to work on me. I began listening to Andy Stanley’s Your Move sermons a few weeks ago. I’m not really following them chronologically or in any particular order. Yesterday while out walking my dogs, I decided to put…
The Kingdom of God is Within You
Luke 17:21 “The Kingdom of God is within you.” One of my struggles with Christianity is with accepting Jesus Christ. Just saying those words will have someone – somewhere – screeching “Blasphemer!” at me. Just saying those words stirs a little fear in me. I wrestle with whom and what to believe, but that is…
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