A Handmade Hat and a Day Without Cancer
🌼 Date: Saturday, January 17, 2026
⚡ Energy: Calm. Steady. Surprisingly full.
❤️🩹 Status: Cancer still exists — but it didn’t get the spotlight today.
☺️ Outlook: Normal days are worth savoring.
Today was one of those sneaky good days — the kind that doesn’t announce itself, it just happens.
My Aunt Dee came to visit and brought me a new hat that she made for me. I’ll add a picture because it deserves documentation, but more than the hat itself, it was the time that mattered.
She stayed for a couple of hours, and we just… talked.
No cancer talk.
No chemo countdown.
No calendar math about steroids starting Monday or infusions on Tuesday.
Just chatting. Catching up. Sitting together like this is still normal life and not something constantly being interrupted by medical appointments and side effects.
And that felt really, really good.
For a few hours, cancer wasn’t looming over my head. It didn’t dominate the conversation or quietly hum in the background. It was just a boring, ordinary Saturday afternoon — and I mean that in the best possible way.
Later, I cooked dinner for a friend. Another very normal thing. Chopping, stirring, serving food. Taking care of someone else instead of being the one being checked on.
It reminded me that I’m still me — not just a patient, not just a body on a treatment schedule, not just someone watching the calendar.
Some days are about grit and endurance.
Some days are about scans and progress and hard conversations.
And some days — like today — are about a handmade hat, a long visit, a home-cooked meal, and the quiet relief of feeling normal for a while.
I’ll take those days whenever they show up.
💗 Tina –
One Badass Day at a Time
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