Stories

The Night Before a Scan It’s Sunday night, December 17, 2023. Tomorrow, I have my biannual brain MRI. I’ve thought through the various outcomes of the scan and the next steps. There’s a flow chart in my head with all the possibilities. If there’s new growth or reoccurrence, I’ll wait to tell the kids until after Christmas. I’m debating if […] January 20, 2024

A Baby and a Craniotomy in the Same Week I had a baby and a craniotomy in the same week. In the summer of 2020, about halfway through my fourth pregnancy, I started having headaches that got progressively worse until, by the end of pregnancy, they were completely debilitating. I also noticed, around that same time, that I had lost the hearing in my […] November 15, 2023

What We Cannot Plan For In August of 2021, my husband and I welcomed our firstborn child into the world. Leading up to his grand entry, we had thoroughly planned for long nights of waking, hundreds of dirty diapers, and the constant parade of bottle parts through our dishwasher. We were excited, and we were prepared. What we did not […] May 3, 2023