From Mini Cans to Grape Juice Bottles
🌼 Date: Tuesday, February 3, 2026
⚡ Energy: Surprisingly upbeat. Mildly impressed. Still skeptical.
💗 Status: Filling, healing, and moving on up.
🌤️ Outlook: Progress is happening—even when I argue with it.
Today was another plastics appointment, and I’m officially moving on up in the world.
I got a 50cc fill on each side, which puts me at 315cc total. For those of you who, like me, need a visual to really appreciate progress, that’s 10.66 ounces—roughly a gulp more than one of those Welch’s grape juice bottles with the screw top.
You know the one.
So yes. From Capri Sun… to mini cans… and now grape juice bottles.
Look at me go. 🍇😄
What really surprised me though was the news about the hole (yes, still calling it that). Apparently, it’s continuing to fill itself in nicely—noticeably so—every single week. And this is happening even though I’m on chemo, which is notorious for slowing down healing.
The doctor was genuinely impressed.
Me?
I was like… ummm, I’m almost four months post-op—shouldn’t this already be filled in by now?
Because of course I was.
I am not good at being the one who needs fixing. I’m the fixer. The problem-solver. The one who gets things done and helps everyone else along. Sitting in the patient chair while my body works on its own timeline feels… uncomfortable.
Even when that timeline is actually doing pretty damn well.
So today was a lesson in perspective. Yes, healing is slower than I want. Yes, I wish my body would hurry up and cooperate already. But the truth is—it is healing. Consistently. Steadily. Against the odds.
And apparently, impressively.
So I’ll take the win. I’ll take the grape juice bottle milestone. And I’ll keep reminding myself that progress doesn’t stop being progress just because it isn’t finished yet.
Still fixing things—just starting with me.
💗 Tina –
One Badass Day at a Time
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