About me and throat cancer

I am a sixty-four year old wife, mother, grandmother, stepmother, and stepgrandmother, aspiring to become a treehugging hillybilly in the Ozark Mountains above Tablerock Lake. My husband and I were married here (wedding pic attached), and I’ve done much of my recovering here. You can feel the presence of God in the lilacs, the dirt, the seedlings, the twenty-seven shades of springtime green, much like Ireland has.

Before the cancer, I was a teacher in Southwestern Arkansas. But illness forced me to stop terrorizing and intimidating adolescent minds .  Now that I’m healing, I have the time and energy finally to chronicle my adventures with cancer and to hope my amateur efforts on this first blog will help you to find your way through the Star Wars like adventure you’re about to experience.

I hope to share what to expect during radiation, the good and bad aspects of the chemo, several moments of irony and laughter, and tips for the vain on wigs, how to choose, how to make them look real, how to wash them, and what to expect when your hair returns. Then I’ll also share some of the physical symptoms you can expect long after the treatments. About nineteen of them to be exact, but if all nineteen botheryou at once, you’ll still think your life quite rich.

I welcome comments and posts about your experience or that of a loved one. More knowlege and less fear will help everyone who faces this in the future. All 16,000 new warriors this year alone.