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Getting my pump on 🏋🏻♀️
Getting back in the weight room after each surgery was the hardest. I was restless, sure. But I was also really tired. My body had been through a trauma after all. Back Story: Being a life long active, ball to… Continue reading
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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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Healing and Healing and Healing…
The trick to healing, is giving yourself one week to be lazy. This means being waited on hand and foot, it means relying on others. In my opinion. Those first few days your body is really suffering from the trauma… 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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