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Remove the junk… 🚛
Day 2 of healthy AF week brings you a simple way to remove the processed foods and garbage from your diet. The biggest tip I can give in this department is to ADD. Add in the good. Before you start… Continue reading
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I want to thrive!
It’s let’s be healthy AF week here. At 40 I want to be kicking off the second half of my life not sliding down to the end. There is a difference between just surviving life (living a long life, possible… Continue reading
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Life’s Perspective Changes Everything
Perspective 1: My Kids are growing up. They are no longer little toddlers and snuggle monkeys. They were so cute. I want them to stay little forever. Perspective 2: My kids are growing up! They can read, grab their own… Continue reading
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Takin’ the Lady Parts
Now that my implants are out (Novemebr 2023), it was time to focus on the remaining lurking bomb. The ovaries. A part of my previous surgeries was removal of the fallopian tubes. 💡 Did you know? They believe that the… Continue reading
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Waking Up Flat
I never felt so good going into a surgery. The day had come for explant and I was ready. I was ready to feel like me again. To feel like my authentic self. To heal from the weird rashes and… Continue reading
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Life With Implants
I’d love to say that I got the mastectomy with reconstruction and life was perfect. That I avoided breast cancer AND got new boobs. But life had different plans. There were many surgeries to “fix” the imbalances, to fix the… Continue reading
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The Surgery
Fresh hair, freshly clean body with the nice coat of iodine wipe. Thats how the day started at 3 am on surgery day. I’m an early bird, but this was early. Eager to get the day going, I was up… Continue reading
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Decision Made
The decision to have a prophylactic double mastectomy was easy, after all I had given birth to my children and they were essentially just for aesthetics. Fake ones would be just as good right? If not better?! I have Kaiser… Continue reading
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Finding Out I Was BRCA2+
After more genetic history was revealed, I met with a genetic counselor at Kaiser and it was determined that indeed I did qualify for more genetic testing to search for mutations that could increase my risk of cancer. A quick… Continue reading
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Welcome to my crazy life.
Hiya friends. Well, soon to be friends. You can’t traverse this site without becoming quick friends and blushing a few times. Continue reading
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