Thyroid Cancer: My Journey Thus Far
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. [...]
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Chinese Whispers
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 Vision
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…
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
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
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
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
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 [...]
Interview With a Trooper – Episode V
It’s the weekend! It’s time for another 25 questions with me! Lucky you! Or something… How old were you when you found out that Santa wasn’t real? 9 or [...]
21 Years
I didn’t know what I wanted to do after I graduated high school. I knew what I was supposed to do, though. I was to pick a college, bury myself in student loans, and [...]
Mental Defecation 
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