Tag: cancer fatigue
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A Small Price to Pay?
A Small Price to Pay? 🌼 Date: Wednesday, September 2, 2026 ⚡ Energy: Angry, grateful, and tired of being told to tolerate it 💗 Status: Survivorship needs more than a fan 🥲 Outlook: Breathing is not the same as thriving I found something online today and it hit home. Hard. Because there seems to be…
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Survivorship Is Not the Finish Line
Survivorship Is Not the Finish Line 🌼 Date: Monday, August 31, 2026 ⚡ Energy: Survivorship reality check 💖 Status: Alive, grateful, tired, and still carrying a lot 🙄 Outlook: Treatment ending does not mean cancer is over People celebrate when treatment ends. And I get it. I really do. Finishing chemo is huge. Finishing radiation…
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The Work Behind Looking Fine
The Work Behind Looking Fine 🌼 Date: Sunday, August 30, 2026 ⚡ Energy: Quiet Sunday planning mode 💖 Status: Lunchbox, layers, protein math, and reality checks 🤔 Outlook: Looking fine takes more work than people know Today I am enjoying one of the last quiet Sundays before school starts. The kind of Sunday where everything…
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Why Am I Always Freezing?
Why Am I Always Freezing? 🌼 Date: Saturday, August 29, 2026 ⚡ Energy: Frozen vegetable phase, apparently ongoing 💓 Status: Blanket, sweater, socks, heating pad, still cold 🧐 Outlook: Google MD has entered the thermostat debate Why am I constantly cold? Not chilly. Not “maybe I should grab a sweater.” Cold. Like take-a-blanket-to-cover-my-legs-and-an-extra-jacket-when-I-go-anywhere cold. Including…
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Seniority Is a Beautiful Thing
Seniority Is a Beautiful Thing 🌼 Date: Wednesday, August 26, 2026 ⚡ Energy: Bid day and cautious hope 💖 Status: Six-hour early morning route secured 🙂 Outlook: Health first, nap second, everything else can wait Today was bid day. And let me just say this: Seniority is a beautiful thing. A beautiful, magical, glorious thing.…
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Chemo Brain Meets New Technology
Chemo Brain Meets New Technology 🌼 Date: Tuesday, August 25, 2026 ⚡ Energy: Technology training with a buffering brain 💗Status: Absorbing what I can 🧐 Outlook: Do my best. That is all I have to give. Today was all about learning the new technology at work. And my brain was not having it. Was it…
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First Day Back
First Day Back 🌼 Date: Monday, August 24, 2026 ⚡Energy: Classroom marathon 💖 Status: Back at work, technically 🤔 Outlook: Rinse and repeat, with meal prep and outfit armor Today was my first day back to work since this whole cancer saga started. First. Day. Back. Granted, it was “only” sitting in eight hours of…
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What Looking Okay Actually Contains
What Looking Okay Actually Contains 🌼 Date: Thursday, August 20, 2026 ⚡ Energy: Return-to-work reality check 💗 Status: Looking okay does not mean feeling okay 😌 Outlook: Please remember there is more happening than what you can see With my return to work coming up soon, this feels like something I need to say. Can…
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Did Not Exercising Enough Cause My Breast Cancer?
Did Not Exercising Enough Cause My Breast Cancer? 🌼 Date: Monday, August 10, 2026 ⚡ Energy: Two-pound weights and treadmill bravery 💖 Status: Moving more, slowly but surely 😲 Outlook: Watch out, three-pound weights may be entering the chat Let’s continue our little miniseries: Did that cause my cancer? Today’s topic? Exercise. Or more specifically:…
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Energy Is Currency
Energy Is Currency 🌼Date: Wednesday, August 5, 2026 ⚡ Energy: Spent on a stainless steel pan 💝 Status: Pan 1, Tina 0 🥱 Outlook: Ginger ale, recliner, and budgeting tomorrow’s energy In case you have not guessed, I have a bit of OCD. Shock and awe, I know. Going to bed with a dirty kitchen,…
