I was lying in bed the other night in pain. My ear was burning and twitching, my breasts burst with that familiar sharp surge and my joint in my foot was once again caught against the bone as the fragments pierced my tendons. I felt the various pains rise and fall over and over again, […]
My Sister’s Celebration: Surviving Breast Cancer
As of this moment, I am currently in Texas visiting my sister and celebrating her five year survivor-ship of Breast Cancer. She was diagnosed five years ago, May 29th 2009. Soon after, she discovered she had the BRCA1 mutation and urged us three sisters to get tested. I was the first to go, and I […]
She Doesn’t Remember…
“Oh Cassidy, do you remember this song?” “No. What do you mean?” “I Can Only Imagine” started playing as I switched around the cd looking for the song Cade begged to listen to once again… I immediately turned it up and gasped with that ever-reminiscent stirring gust of air that somehow blows the dust […]