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Absolutely Counts
Absolutely Counts 🌼 Date: Wednesday, December 24, 2025 ⚡ Energy: 🔋🔋🔋 (surprisingly decent) 💔 Status: Balding with dignity, functioning, mildly festive 🌞 Outlook: Cautiously optimistic, armed with clippers and sass Today? Today was a pretty damn good day. First things first: nausea barely showed up. 🎉Like… barely RSVP’d. I’ll take that win and put it…
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Today Was a Good Day
Today Was a Good Day 🌼 Date: Tuesday, December 23, 2025 ⚡ Energy: Better than expected 💔 Status: Alive (medicated, baking) 🌞 Outlook: Cautiously optimistic, clippers nearby Today was a good day. And I don’t say that lightly. I think — I hope — we finally found the right combination of meds to shut the…
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I Got Dressed
I Got Dressed 🌼 Date: Monday, December 22, 2025 ⚡ Energy: Low, but showing up 💔 Status: Alive (bare nails, real clothes) 🌞 Outlook: Holding steady, with receipts Today, I got dressed. Not “clean pajamas” dressed.Not “leggings and a hoodie, let’s survive” dressed. I put on real clothes.I did my makeup.I looked in the mirror…
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In Sickness and In Health (Turns Out It Wasn’t Theoretical)
In Sickness and In Health (Turns Out It Wasn’t Theoretical) 🌼 Date: Sunday, December 21, 2025 ⚡ Energy: Low but sentimental 💔 Status: Alive (and still married) 🌞 Outlook: Grateful with a side of awe Today is a big one. Casey and I have been married for 34 years.Thirty. Four. We met in high school…
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Fur Babies, and My Mary
Fur Babies, and My Mary 🌼 Date: Saturday, December 20, 2025 ⚡ Energy: Low → improving 💔 Status: Alive 🙂 Outlook: Holding steady (with a side of gratitude) Today feels different — in a good way. The nausea finally backed off enough that I could eat and keep food down. I actually managed about three…
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Uterine Uprising
Uterine Uprising 🌼 Date: Thursday, December 18, 2025 ⚡ Energy: Low 💔 Status: Alive, betrayed by my uterus 🌞Outlook: Sarcastically optimistic I was told chemo would shove me straight into menopause.Apparently, my body did not get that memo. Instead, it chose “’Tis the season of giving” and went full Harry & David gift basket on…
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Chemo nausea? She’s rude. She’s unpredictable. She does not RSVP.
Chemo nausea? She’s rude. She’s unpredictable. She does not RSVP. 🌼 Date: Wednesday, December 17, 2025 ⚡ Energy: Low but functional 🤢 Status: Nauseous, mouth angry, still standing ✨ Outlook: One pretzel at a time Nausea update:This is not morning sickness. Morning sickness at least has the decency to show up on a schedule.Chemo nausea?She’s…
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I Cried at the Rain
I Cried at the Rain 🌼 Date: Monday, December 15, 2025 ⚡Energy: Low → depleted, but still breathing ❤️🩹 Status: Alive 😪 Outlook: Emotionally unpredictable. Physically annoyed. Still showing up. Today I Cried Because It Was Raining I was laying back in my recliner, mid-chemo spiral, trying to decide whether everything I’d managed to eat…
