It's 9:45pm on Saturday August 29th, 2026 as I write this blog. One year ago, it was Friday August 29th, 2025. This time last year my sister had just sent a text 10 minutes earlier telling my closest friends and family that I was out of surgery and would be coming up to my room shortly. I was wheeled into an OR at 4:15pm that night for an emergency mastectomy. The hospital knew I was coming three days earlier and my surgeon was on call that weekend as the emergency surgeon.

Healing From Surgery, Choosing a Different Path and the Synchronicities that Continue to Guide me... Because part one was super long, I knew I would need to continue the story and share where I'm at now and how I got here. I don't think it'll be as long, but who am I kidding? (I promise it won't be nearly as long) Once I was settled in my room and the chaos settled down I attempted to sleep; that would become nearly impossible, every hour on the hour I was wide awake. I co

Navigating a Triple Negative Breast Cancer diagnosis, Self-Advocacy and the Fight to be heard. I’ve been dancing with the idea of writing this for a while now. I knew as I was going through the process of the medical system and my own mental process of navigating what I felt was right for me, that someday I would want to document it. Share it. And, when I wasn’t able to find anyone like me, no one who had gone through similar and wading through the sea of “do this or don’t