Surviving Survivorship

December 8, 2020.Reading time 6 minutes.

Surviving survivorship is insanely difficult, and not talked about nearly enough.

Finally, An Update

April 18, 2019.Reading time 4 minutes.

Let me tell you this, my friends: life after cancer is weird.

34: The Year of Self Love

January 22, 2019.Reading time 3 minutes.

Another year around the sun, another reflection post of the hard stuff I’ve been through. I’m really looking forward to the upcoming year of self love.

Getting Back At It

January 3, 2019.Reading time 8 minutes.

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 […]

Lessons in Acceptance

December 11, 2018.Reading time 5 minutes.

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.

Gathering Up My Silver Linings

November 27, 2018.Reading time 7 minutes.

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 […]

When the Dust Starts to Settle

November 14, 2018.Reading time 5 minutes.

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 […]

My Breast Cancer Journey: I’m Free

October 25, 2018.Reading time 11 minutes.

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 […]

The Truth About the Final Weeks of Chemo

September 17, 2018.Reading time 5 minutes.

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? […]

My Breast Cancer Journey: Surgery Update

September 12, 2018.Reading time 6 minutes.

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 […]