Got my pathology results back from my second surgery. Now, I have medical knowledge, been a nurse for a long time and consider myself fairly intelligent person. I have difficulty understanding the pathology report that get released to my healthcare app. It’s both a blessing and not so much, to have this information available when Read more

Had my second surgery yesterday (a Tuesday). I went to work, like normal (on Monday). Only, I was pretty distracted about having surgery in a facility that I didn’t know anyone. That has NEVER happened to me before. I have had my gallbladder out and had two ERCPs. All at facilities that I worked and Read more

I need to go on a slight tangent about the care I have gotten through my journey thus far. I have obtained world-class care from world-class facilities along the way. The only time that wasn’t top-notch in the journey was getting my old mammograms from the last place I had gotten them. That being said, Read more

The Nurse Curse is a real thing!!! I am a registered nurse. This Curse is known as the following: when a nurse has a medical procedure or enters a hospital as a patient, if something can go wrong, it WILL!!! All facts! The day after my surgery, I did what all good patients do, rested, Read more

Now, I have to be honest, I saw the results of the biopsy on the patient portal for the health system that the place I got my biopsy used. I saw that I had cancer before the doctor actually called me. Now, some of you are saying ‘that’s terrible’. For me it wasn’t and here’s Read more

Every journey has a beginning or a point that anyone can say, yup that was the start. This is the start of my cancer journey. In November of 2021, I had my routine yearly mammogram as I was 43 and started mammograms at age 40 as recommended. In December of that same year, my family Read more