Waiting for the Brazilian Video Hello, Everyone! It's Jacki, the most infrequent blogger ever. It's getting close to that time when it will be a year total since I had cancer. Every couple of months, I have to get checked by oncology and radiology/oncology. Yesterday, my turn to flash radiology/oncology. The doctor says: "You've lost …
What happened to your blog?
Underground. That's what happened. I went underground. Maybe it's the super-public way I dealt with cancer. Or maybe it's just standard PTSD after going through such an ordeal, but I plummeted straight down into eighth-grade-level depression. That combined with near constant anxiety attacks shut me down. I'm coming around, after going to the doctor and …
Tribute Thursday: The Boland Family
The first time I saw Heather Boland, she was tearing up the elliptical at the gym wearing a scarf to cover her bald head courtesy of cancer treatment. I didn’t know Heather yet, but had heard she was battling cancer. A quick burst of an inhale followed by sadness and “Oh God, her kids …
Had it? Lose it
You know that day when everything sets you off? That's been the last few days for me. The kids left rotting apples in my freshly cleaned car, then complained Ew, it stinks in here. We tried to take the kids for a fun day at a water park, but had to turn around when one …
Tribute Thursday: Lenore-Drydens rule!
It's Tribute time again, finally! I might be slow, but I still deliver... This time, it's our friends the Lenore-Dryden family. They've included us on several annual rituals that have become some of our most …
Looksie – Get the last laugh on cancer at a comedy show
When I was hopped up on steroids during chemo, I stayed up all night and wrote this show. Now it's a reality - my first one-woman show with poorly sung parody songs and other surprises. Hope to see you there! THREE POSITIVES: 1- Cancer sucks. Let's make fun of it. 2- Look at all the …
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Hell yeah, it’s 2014!
Look at us...Blissfully hanging out on a hopefully dormant volcano. No idea cancer was waiting right around the corner. That's pretty much like any day. You have no idea what's coming. So you might as well hang out on a volcano. I've never been so happy to exit a year as 2013 - only because …
Dear Santa, I need an extension
Okay, I'm not talking hair here. I'm talking deadlines. And I'm one of those people who hits deadlines for a living. But this one is so unfair. It snuck up on me and everyone else in the free world. Can't we just put a filler week in there? Christmas cards? Not happening. Gifts arriving on …
Tribute Thursday: A tale of two grandfathers
See that dude on the left, he's my dad. The other man is Brian's dad. There they are watching Livvie pop up from behind a sofa at Amelie's in Charlotte, NC, while Steven shakes his head in "grow up already mode" like he's 30. Both gdads have been hugely supportive of us, when we started …
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Voici Tribute Thursday: The LaBorde Famille
It’s Tribute Thursday, ya’ll. That’s when I try to remind you that there are amazing people in the world. Meet the LaBorde Famille! I say famille because they’re French. When we were a new family at Abernethy Elementary, I used to notice Shonda dropping her son Josson off at Steven’s first grade class with a …
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