Health
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You Know I’m Feeling Better When…
My mom called me a couple of days ago and asked me, “Did you really stay up until 3 am working on a website?” Why, yes I did. I’ve been feeling great and aside from the little scar at the base of my throat, I hardly feel like I even had surgery. Though that one…
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Post-Op Notes and Breastfeeding After Surgery
📍 ColoradoIn case you missed my note on Facebook, I got the best news possible when I awoke from surgery: the nodule was benign, which means I still have half a thyroid and am not expecting to have to deal with radioactive iodine. I couldn’t have imagined anything better to hear through the fog of anesthesia as…
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Drawing a Line
There are moments in life when a line is drawn. Moments that have a very distinct before and after, and that completely change the course of our lives. Most days life is a blur of tiny changes, growth, and gradual movement from one phase to the next until suddenly we look down and realize our baby is…
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This and That
I have lost track of what has been said and what hasn’t. The last few weeks have been so filled with ups and downs, good and bad, big, exciting moments and little wonderful ones. Did I ever update you on our house? We went up to Gillette at the end of April, did some work on…
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The Latest Path in Our Journey
The last few weeks, we have found ourselves walking down a very unexpected path. The short story is that I have a nodule on my thyroid for which I am about to undergo a second round of testing to hopefully rule out cancer. The longer version of the story goes something like this: Two years…
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Moving Forward
These two girls are my world. They make me happier than anything I ever could have imagined, and I feel so lucky to have them in my life. The last few months there have been a lot of challenging moments. A lot. I’ve realized that we are in one of the natural low points of the…
