So.  If you had a 10am appointment with your favorite oncologist tomorrow morning, what would you bring as a casual yet fantastic gift for Dr. Wonderful and/or his staff?  (I’m trying to think beyond baked goods and getting nowhere.) Or, if you work in the medical field, is there anything that patients bring in that touches you in more than a sugar high kinda...

No.  Cancer.  In.  My.  Liver. Dr. Wonderful called today.  He said, “There are no malignancies in your liver biopsy.  This is good news, but we will still watch this area very closely.” I stood on tippie-toes and did a little jig in the grass on my front lawn.  I said, “Thank you for calling and telling me, and that is such great news.” He...

These three days are a mixed blessing.  I have three days of no appointments, reverting me back to my very normal, very everyday routine with my girls and our little schedule that we run on.  Baby Sister is here and we have a comfort and an ease as we move about the house, trading off kids and duties and car keys.  She’s picking up all of the mundane: laundry,...

I carry my phone charger around with me all the time now.  It is nearly impossible to keep my phone charged because of the overwhelming amount of conversation that is going on between me, the medical team, and the network of every person I have ever met.  Dr. Wonderful give me a funny look when I reached under his chair to retrieve my wall charger as we were leaving...

All of this is just bamboozling.  I’m bamboozled, Brad is bamboozled, my family, my friends.  I think everyone I’ve ever known is bamboozled. It is unexplainable.  I am 32, I have no family history of cancer, I am otherwise healthy.  Dr. Wonderful was poignant and thorough to tell me that there is nothing I did wrong, no choice I made, no product I ate....