Navigating dual primary cancer—one step, one rep, one breath at a time.
by Alli Houseworth
Moving a billion times and somehow ending up having your stage three cancer removed at the same hospital where you were born. Being admitted to
Having cancer and feeling fine. Treating cancer and feeling like shit. Having someone sit down next to you at the pedicure drying station (PS you
Looking forward to surgery because it feels like a fucking break. Having people you wouldn’t even have even really called a friend six months ago
Celebrating the one-year anniversary of moving into your townhouse and realizing that when you moved in, you already had at least one cancer—you just didn’t
Taking an unbelievable amount of prescription meds when you used to barely take Ibuprofen or cold meds in the Beforetimes. Your mom asking which chemo
Going into a grocery store two days after you get your port placed – and for the first time since before your surgery – and
Opening your budget tracking sheet for the first time in six weeks and seeing a tab that says “DCIS Expenses” and it having a pretty
My mom saying she doesn’t like to microwave things in plastic and me thinking, me too, but what the fuck does it matter because I
Do I renew my yoga teaching insurance for the year? Will I teach this year? Looking at emails from before surgery. People moving to different
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Navigating dual primary cancer—one step, one rep, one breath at a time.
