Sharing is definitely me!
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As my tennis friends know, Swearing is too!
The diagnosis has been a shock to me, my family, and friends. I thought this would be a wonderful forum for me to openly express my thoughts and feelings to help me with the emotional healing. Not talking about feelings results in increased anxiety for me. I get a tremendous sense of "calm" when I talk, cry, lament and laugh about this horrendous journey that I am about to embark. So, please communicate with me as you wish. Let me apologize in advance if I over share, but this is why I am blogging, so you can follow or not. Also, I was a math teacher, not an English teacher, so forgive the run on sentences, fragmented sentences, spelling errors, split infinitives, or other grammatical errors that there might be.
I called my lovely and talented daughter Alexandra to help me start the sharing process.
Alexandra is 25 and lives in Kansas City, Missouri. She graduated from Syracuse University with a degree in Industrial Design. She is now a designer at Hallmark. She navigated the whole process and now I have a beautiful blog!!
Alexandra called me and said that I needed to give the blog a name. Cancer is an Asshole...Fuck Cancer...Cancer sucks, Lynnie's little lump (that was Ralph's idea) were a few of my thoughts. Alexandra had a great idea! She said that there is a fashion blog called "Cupcakes and Cashmere" and she suggested "Cupcakes and Cancer". I thought she was teasing, but as I thought about it, I really liked it! Blogging about the bad stuff as well as a little frosting or good stuff. The positive & the negative.
"Going through loss and grief is like going through a tunnel. The bad news is the tunnel is dark. The good news is once you have entered into the tunnel, you're already on your way out."
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