The Lily Pad

Good bye 2013! What a year it was. Last year at this time I felt the freshness in the air, a new beginning, the hope for good things to co...

The post treatment wait for my scan passed more quickly than I feared. The five week interlude is standard to give the chemo more time to do...

Tomorrow I am scheduled for what will hopefully be my last chemotherapy infusion. Almost six months of treatments and, hopefully, my last on...

At the time of my diagnosis the cancer was present in two quadrants of my body; it was stage II. It had affected lymph nodes in both si...

Cancer has changed me in ways I never imagined.  I think back to the person I was in the spring, navigating an over-scheduled calendar...

We have now been home a couple weeks from our family vacation at Acadia National Park, and have had time to unpack and let all of the beauti...