Healthy Food Made Easy
Good morning! This is the second week in a row that I haven’t been able to keep up with my traditional Monday/Wednesday/Friday blog postings, but next week should be a more normal schedule. I have two finals this week and that is definitely throwing me off. Also, yesterday, I traveled to Santa Barbara for my… [Continue Reading]
Filed under: Eat to Live Thyroid Cancer
Well, surgery day is almost here. I have mixed emotions for sure that range from wanting to run and hide and pretend that this isn’t really happening to just wanting to get this over with. These past three weeks have been among the most difficult times of my life so far, but I am feeling… [Continue Reading]
Filed under: Thyroid Cancer
Hi everyone, This is a post I never, ever thought I’d be writing, but I do have thyroid cancer. I got the call from my doctor in the late afternoon on Monday. Yesterday was a really hard day. Did you ever read this book? Yep, that was me. Things started looking up as the day… [Continue Reading]
Filed under: Eat to Live Thyroid Cancer
This picture of me is from October, 2012, when I was getting prepped to have my thyroid cancer surgery. You can see the black line that my doctor drew with a pen to get me ready. My nervous smile belied the huge amount of anxiety and fear I was feeling, and just looking at the photo… [Continue Reading]
Filed under: Cancer Prevention Healthy Inspiration Sponsored Posts
I’ve seen a lot of ways to drive support for breast cancer research, but this big pink bus is a new one (pun intended, ha): This rose-colored beauty is part of the Megabus.com fleet, offering express bus service to over 100 cities in North America, and tomorrow, January 19th, the company is donating $1 for each… [Continue Reading]
Filed under: Cancer Prevention Healthy Inspiration Life Lessons Product Reviews Thyroid Cancer
Today marks the 6-week anniversary since my thyroid cancer surgery. I am so much happier this morning than I was on the big day, that’s for sure! In some ways, it feels like it was just yesterday and in other ways it feels like a lifetime ago. I e-mailed my endocrinologist early last week to… [Continue Reading]
Filed under: Eat to Live Thyroid Cancer Travel
Happy Friday! I hope you had a nice week. I continue to recover really quickly from my thyroid cancer surgery last week. I went to the gym for the first time on Wednesday and again on Thursday and I was pretty shocked that I had most of my energy and about 80% of my strength…. [Continue Reading]
Filed under: Eat to Live Thyroid Cancer
Hi there! Are you enjoying Vegan Mofo so far? Have you discovered any new food blogs through it? I can’t believe we’re coming up on the end of October already. This is now day 10 since my surgery last week and I have my final pathology report news at the end of this post (it’s… [Continue Reading]
Filed under: Photo Food Journal Thyroid Cancer
Good morning! I’m so happy to slow down on all of this talk on cancer and surgery and get back to more food talk. I do very much appreciate your notes on my recovery from my surgery; I am doing a lot better. Last night I got my first full night of sleep in over… [Continue Reading]
Filed under: Breakfast Cancer Prevention Chocolate Anything Dairy-Free Recipes Disordered Eating Recovery Easy Recipes Eat to Live Gluten-Free Recipes Healthy Inspiration High-Speed Blender Recipes Main Dishes Nutritarian Recipes Paleo Recipes Plant-Based Recipes Smoothies Thyroid Cancer
Good morning! I hope your week is going well. This is my 2nd post for Vegan Mofo 2012 (you can read the first post here). As I mentioned on Monday, my theme this year is Cancer-Fighting Foods in honor of my recent diagnosis with thyroid cancer and the treatments I’ll be going through over the… [Continue Reading]
Filed under: Photo Food Journal Thyroid Cancer
