Tag: Chemo Life
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Good Healing, Hard Goodbye
Good Healing, Hard Goodbye 🌼 Date: Monday, January 12, 2026 ⚡ Energy: Emotionally wrung out. Physically tired. Still here. 💔 Status: Good news from my body. Devastating news from my heart. 😭 Outlook: Grateful for progress. Grieving a very loved little soul. Today came with both good news and bad news — the kind of…
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$30, Ten Hours of Sleep, and a Damn Good Day
$30, Ten Hours of Sleep, and a Damn Good Day 🌼 Date: Sunday, January 11, 2026 ⚡ Energy: Rested. Giddy. Mildly feral in the best way. 💔 Status: Post-Trazodone bliss and back in my body. 🌞 Outlook: Turns out “normal” can feel like a miracle. Last night I took a Trazodone and slept for ten…
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Pajamas, Brunch, and the Good Kind of Tired
Pajamas, Brunch, and the Good Kind of Tired 🌼 Date: Saturday, January 10, 2026 ⚡ Energy: Low battery, full heart. 💔 Status: End of week two post-chemo tired — the real, heavy kind. 🌞 Outlook: Worth it. Today was a family day — the kind that doesn’t look flashy but settles into your bones in…
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Unsupervised, Unstitched, and Wigless in Public
Unsupervised, Unstitched, and Wigless in Public 🌼 Date: Friday, January 9, 2026 ⚡ Energy: Determined. Unsupervised. Mildly unhinged. 💔 Status: Stitches ripped out. Dignity questionable. Adaptability undefeated. 🌞 Outlook: Calling plastics, wearing a pink wig, and laughing anyway. Yesterday ended with a plot twist no one asked for. After a day that included Christmas tree…
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Fertigation, But Make It Personal
Fertigation, But Make It Personal 🌼 Date: Thursday, January 8, 2026 ⚡ Energy: Grateful, slightly stunned, and then immediately assaulted by dog poop. 💔 Status: Apparently people are reading this… and my blind puppy chose violence. 🌞 Outlook: Thankful for humans. Concerned about puppies. Still standing. Before I tell you about how my morning turned…
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Paperwork, Puppies, and Pulling Down Christmas
Paperwork, Puppies, and Pulling Down Christmas 🌼 Date: Wednesday, January 07, 2026 ⚡ Energy: Depleted, overachieving, stubborn. 💞 Status: Still alive. Slightly dizzy. Very accomplished. 😪 Outlook: The hard work is done — tomorrow is a problem for tomorrow. Today was one of those days where nothing dramatic happened, but somehow everything was exhausting. Phone…
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Pre-Baby Bladder Sleep and Other Miracles
Pre-Baby Bladder Sleep and Other Miracles 🌼 Date: Monday, January 05, 2026 ⚡ Energy: Cautiously optimistic (with good sleep swagger) ❤️🩹 Status: Rested, stitched, still healing 😴 Outlook: One miracle at a time — todays was sleep I woke up at 1:15 a.m. to pee.Which, historically, is how my body likes to trick me into…
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Victory Pajamas and Window Decals
Victory Pajamas and Window Decals 🌼 Date: Sunday, January 4, 2026 ⚡ Energy: Triumphant but tender ❤️🩹 Status: Sore, tired, victorious 🥶 Outlook: Cold outside, warm inside, finally caught up Ha! WordPress: conquered. This mission technically started Friday night and didn’t officially end until this morning. Two days of wrestling with menus, ghost pages, slugs…
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59 Hours Awake, 8 Hours of Bliss (and a Hard Stop at 10:30)
59 Hours Awake, 8 Hours of Bliss (and a Hard Stop at 10:30) 🌼 Date: Wednesday, December 31, 2025 ⚡ Energy: Quiet, tender, deeply tired 💓 Status: Shot one complete, record sleep achieved 🥱 Outlook: Rest counts as progress Day one of the Granix shots. For reasons known only to my body and whatever gremlin…
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Chemo Brain, Clean Laundry, and Registered Bags
Chemo Brain, Clean Laundry, and Registered Bags 🌼 Date: Tuesday, December 30, 2025 ⚡ Energy: Wired but weirdly productive 💞 Status: Steroids ending, insomnia ongoing 🧐 Outlook: Organized chaos with a side of science This morning was my last dose of steroids. No steroids tonight, which means tomorrow morning I officially start the shots. (Insert…
