by Kathy on August 20, 2019 · 0 comments
in breast care, Cancer, Communication, Cysts, Family, Happiness, Journey, Life, Time, Travel
On Friday afternoon I got a call from the breast center with fabulous news! The results came back earlier than expected. The mass in my breast is a fibroadenoma. It is completely benign and doesn’t need to be removed. Wahoo!!! Yippee!!! Yay!!! They do want me to return for a follow up ultrasound and mammogram […]
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by Kathy on August 14, 2019 · 0 comments
in Anticipation, Anxiety, breast care, Cancer, Coping, Courage, Cysts, Expectations, Healing, Hope, Life, Memories, Odds, Optimism, Pain, Planning, Time, Vacations
I came across this edited version of a page from a children’s story yesterday (via Parenting Works). I love the idea that we can allow ourselves to feel more than one emotion at the same time. It’s okay to cry. We can feel sad and brave. Those two emotions (as well as any others) are […]
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by Kathy on July 30, 2019 · 0 comments
in Anxiety, Background, Bereavement, Blessed, Bob, Camp Algonquin, Cancer, Change, Communication, Coping, Courage, Decisions, Disappointment, Dreams, Family, Friends, Grace, Gratitude, Grief, Healing, Hope, Journey, Life, London Semester Journals, Loss, Love, Marriage, Memories, Molly, Pain, Parenting, Reality, Relationships, Sadness, Secondary Infertility, Social Media, The Future, The Past, Therapy, Time, Titanic, Travel, Writing
I wrote and shared another version of this post one year ago today. At some point since then, I found my notes from a session with an old therapist (who moved out of state a few years ago). I discovered that processing “missed potential,” and not “missed opportunity,” were the actual words she used to […]
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Thursday, 3-7-96 9:00 PM London 3:00 PM E-Town My perceptions are extremely heightened at the moment. In the distance thru my window, open just a crack, here at Pembridge, I just heard church bells ring for the hour. I have heard the bells at least 2 other times today. I have been home all day […]
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by Kathy on April 17, 2019 · 0 comments
in Bereavement, Birthdays, Blessed, Books, Change, Coping, Family, Grief, Healing, Hope, Life, Loss, Love, Memories, Milestones, Molly, Neonatal Death, Siblings, The 17th, Time, Vacations
Happy 11th Heavenly Birthday, Molly Marie! Here we are again… Celebrating you, forever our baby girl, wondering what might’ve been, and making the best of what is. Today it’s been 11 (my lucky number) years since I held you. Your death certainly didn’t make me feel very lucky at the time, though I was/am forever […]
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12 years ago today, on April 10, 2007, I began blogging. On past blogoversaries I have shared things that I have learned from blogging and seven years ago, since my blogoversary fell on the second Tuesday of April, I chose “Blogoversaries” to be the Time Warp topic for that month. Six Years ago, I decided to keep it simple and choose one […]
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