From Hair to There

August 19, 2014.Reading time 5 minutes.

Queue Rod Serling: You are about to enter another dimension. A dimension not only of time and space, but of hair. A journey into a wondrous land of strands. You’ve just crossed over into… the Baldilocks Zone. My apologies to those of you born after about 1970, for you are now wondering where the f you can […]

Inspiration

August 24, 2013.Reading time 15 minutes.

Yo! Sorry for the delay since my last post. I’ve been out and about living a “normal” life 🙂 Birthday parties, fundraisers, weddings, dinners, lunches, moving children into apartments, movies, family reunions, etc. So grateful that I’m able to do all of it! As I celebrate Day 250 Post-Transplant, I’ve been reflecting on the past […]

There Once Was a Girl from Nantucket

July 15, 2013.Reading time 8 minutes.

There once was a girl from Nantucket … Oh wait, scratch that – I think we all know where that’s headed 🙂 Ah hem… There once was a chick from Laguna Got the sniffles once in a blue moona. One morning she woke And without any provoke, Her muscles felt they’d been hit by a […]

Transplant

January 3, 2013.Reading time 11 minutes.

I apologize for taking an exorbitant amount of time to get another post up, but I have been feeling rather sh*tty as of late. I am sitting here in a slightly morphine induced haze, trying to update you on the previous 5 weeks of my life. Here goes nothing: On December 3rd, a couple of […]

We Have a Plan

November 25, 2012.Reading time 7 minutes.

So, we have a plan. I will check into City of Hope on December 7 to begin my bone marrow transplant festivities. On the morning of the 7th I will receive a Hickman catheter, which is wider gauged than the PICC line I now have in my left arm. I guess marrow is thicker than […]