Tag Archives: Mental Health

We recently went to a jeweller to have my wedding ring cut off… a spell of dehydration caused some water retention that turned my fingies into nice pork sausages. The idea of cutting it caused me some heartache and anxiety, which is silly (I know). It was very uncomfortable and somewhat painful. We knew weContinue reading “Little Anchor”

For the last couple of months I have been grappling with some pretty big self-doubts. Having survived and conquered the cancer mountain has left me feeling like I am operating in existential limbo. Everything has returned to a relative state of normalcy, but I no longer feel normal. With everything that changed, I don’t seemContinue reading “An Impostor Among Us…”

We’ve been in the eye of a pandemic for almost two years now. It significantly changed everything in a comically short amount of time, and everything seems to keep changing the more time passes. Even more strange for me, is that it has almost been a year since we found out I have cancer. AllContinue reading “Regression to the mean”

Some things in you change when you find out that you have cancer.  These changes can happen all at once or gradually over the treatment time that follows. The first change is an element of shock that floods your system.  It chills and paralyses you, while all the possibilities of what the rest of yourContinue reading “Cancer”