I hope you all had a fantastic holiday season with your family and friends. Ours was very busy but we made sure to take time to slow down and enjoy each part of it. There were highs and lows as we celebrated the wedding of my sweet cousin, watched the magic of Santa through Dane’s […]
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I’m a 33 year old cancer survivor. I will always deal with the fear of cancer coming back but I plan to live in a way that I don’t believe it will.
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This has, undoubtedly, been the hardest year of my life. Its not even a question. It’s like the past 3 years of hard things were just the warm up laps and this was the final sprint. It has flown by and has felt like a really bad dream… a total blur. Even though I received […]
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Here we are at 4 weeks post double mastectomy. It is also 8 weeks since my last chemo injection. My life is slowly but surely coming back together before my eyes, even though some of those days I wasn’t sure it would. The chemo is finally out of my system and my energy levels are […]
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Miss me? It’s been well over a month since I’ve shared here how things have been going. The past month by far has been the hardest of all of it. The chemo, the fatigue, the endless doctor appointments… all of it. You would probably think, but Martha – you finished chemo, you could relax and […]
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I am so dang emotional right now. Anything, and I mean anything could literally set me off on an uncontrollable crying fit. I’ve cried so much in the past few weeks you could water our desert-dry lawn with my many tears. I’m so exhausted. Like, so SO exhausted. Are you tired of reading that word? […]
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Hello friends! It’s been a bit since I’ve given an update and a lot has happened recently so I’ll dive right in. First of all – I just have to say that I am SO OVER IT. I knew that the side effects from Taxol were going to be cumulative, but I honestly wasn’t seeing […]
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So big news over in the Herdy house… after a ton of research, thought, support of my amazing husband, and encouragement from my fantastic dietician, (shoutout to Alison at Wholesome, follow her on Insta too! @wholesomellc). I’ve decided to move to a mostly vegetarian diet after I’m back on my feet. My plan at first […]
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It’s been exactly 4 months since “my first day with cancer”. Months one and two were spent at endless doctors appointments, mostly in shock and confusion, and just trying to get from one day to the next without losing it. Those months also included the big baddie chemo drugs and lots and lots of down […]
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This was today’s calendar quote – it seemed so relevant to me. “You are sowing the flowers of tomorrow in the seeds of today” I’ve had so many thoughts swirling around in my head the past few weeks and honestly have been meaning to type them out but the motivation has been SO LOW. I […]
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Staying Martha 