Will this nightmare ever end?
My meet and greet the surgeon came. My husband took off to go with me and my kids were to stay with my mom, but my son threw his guts up so all the changed and my husband stayed with my kids and I went to the meeting alone. That was a very hard thing…
Relapse
The follow up visit with the gastro doctor was quick and simple, they ordered a MRI to make sure everything was as it should be and that fell the week after Christmas. I was happy because I was confident that it was gone, I was cured and that this whole ordeal was going to be…
The aftermath
The endoscopy went about as well as I imagined it would. My son was exclusively breastfed at this time and refused to take a bottle. My mom told me to leave them with her overnight as the endoscopy was super early in the morning, so it seemed like a good idea to us. My husband…
New normal
After settling into the fear and getting okay with my diagnose of a large cyst (13cm) on the tail end of my pancreas, I googled all kinds of things. People would tell me all kinds of craziness of what they thought it was but I didn’t put much stock in it. I got so tired…
It’s Impossible…
I settled into life with 3 children as easily as you would expect. I was tired, emotional, and slow to heal. The kids were kids and we navigated tantrums, fights, regression, and the like. After 3 weeks, I was still having pain in my side under my ribs and I kept crying telling anyone who…
August 2023
Things were rapidly spiralling from bad to worse as my grandma had a heart attack and was sent to the hospital with her heart working only 10%.This brought out the worst in my mother, and she tried to “prevent me from going into labor” by not talking to me or telling me how grandma was.…
As A Tree 