Articles by Twindaddy

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Sometimes funny. Sometimes serious. Always genuine.

Thyroid Cancer: My Journey Thus Far

January 22, 2021 // 11 Comments

At this very moment last year, I was lying unconscious on an operating table, my neck opened wide as a surgeon evicted my thyroid and a few dozen lymph nodes from my body. [...]

Chinese Whispers

December 30, 2020 // 2 Comments

I love watching family videos. I can sit for hours sifting through videos of my children and never tire of watching them. I didn’t own my first camcorder until the [...]

2020 Things of Thankful

November 26, 2020 // 0 Comments

….I used to participate in a weekly challenge called 10 Things of Thankful. The idea was to find 10 things every week for which I was thankful. After a while it became [...]

Interview With a Trooper – Would You Rather Edition

November 23, 2020 // 4 Comments

I’ve had these questions just sitting in my drafts folder for ages, but I’ve been too busy working and/or being depressed by this stupid-ass year to answer them. [...]

2020 Vision

August 15, 2020 // 4 Comments

I remember the first time I watched Disney’s version of Alice in Wonderland and wondering when, if ever, Alice would reach the bottom of the rabbit hole. The agony of [...]

Four Score (but really only two months) Ago…

March 22, 2020 // 12 Comments

I faced the most daunting challenge of my life. A CT scan revealed that a 4cm mass of thyroid tissue had grown outside of my actual thyroid, and a biopsy determined it was [...]

Cancerous Thoughts

March 1, 2020 // 2 Comments

I sat in an uncomfortable chair in the ENT’s office after a long day at work. Between the everyday stress of working and raising my youngest son, I had the added weight [...]

Interview With a Trooper – Episode IX

February 8, 2020 // 4 Comments

Well hello there! It’s time again for me to answer questions from some strange person on the internet because evidently I have nothing better to do. Okay, nothing [...]

Interview With a Trooper – Episode VIII

February 2, 2020 // 8 Comments

It’s been a bit since I’ve posted an interview segment (because reasons), so I figured I’d get another post on the wall. How’s everyone doing?? What [...]

My Mother’s Shoes

January 19, 2020 // 18 Comments

Ten years ago I took a day off of work to drive my mother to the hospital for an angiogram. I remember waiting for hours as the procedure crawled by, but not much else. At [...]