End of February 2025, 2 days before my 43rd birthday, the doctor gave me my final diagnosis "You have Cancer"! I was in shock! "I had what?!", "Why Me?!", "How?!", "Now Where do I go from here?!"!! Soo many questions and very few answers.❤️ Early 2024, I had been fighting low iron for months, partly my stubbornness and partly getting through medical systems it took longer than it should have to get into the doctor! I finally landed in the hands of an amazing hematologist who

If someone would have said the word boundaries to me 4 years ago, I wouldn't have a clue what they meant! Growing up I was taught to walk away from a fight and to never engage. My parents bought the house when I was 6 years old and man was it fun! Our house is on a dead end and every neighbor had chain link fences soo all of us kids could just hop on over to eachothers yard. It was the 90's and as a kid we were outside more than we were inside. It was so fun until it wasn't.

No one talks about the hours needed to talk to the doctors, get specialty meds filled, or the frustration caused by managing my medical. 6 different doctors in different specialities, all prescribing meds and not one doctor talking to each other! They expect us to be able to decipher there medical jargon, then repeat that same information to another doctor two months later, and all of this with brain fog, chronic fatigue and chronic pain! 🫠 I say all of this as not to compla

This year, while not too far into it, has been full of good days mixed with a few bad days but so far this year seems to be starting off good :). This year I was able to close the final chapter with my life in KC. And YES my son, parents, family and friends still reside there but now I am the visitor. I closed the door and I opened the door to my future with new adventures, love I've only now known and sandy beaches! I have watched my son grow from my little boy to an amazing