PunkRockMamas

I can't even begin to express the awe of this.. It really feels like a game changer in my cancer care. One step closer to where I need to be.

No really.. She's a real life super hero.. She's even saving lives.. Mine included.. My Tia Veronica (Tia Tofu) has been donating all forms of matter she can at the City Of Hope hospital in Ca. Since 1997 she has donated blood, plasma, and bone marrow. She has reached 150 donations!! She inspires me so much. DABS TO TiA TOFU!! I'm proud to be her niece.

I am stressing going back to my hometown like a big fat baby.... It's for my Grandfather's 80th Birthday on the 25th. BUT I have to come clean with a few things after his party that I'm just DREADING. I'm not good at verbal emotional things. I'm a very personal person when it comes to my health. I do things low key, on my own. Stubbornly and frustratingly so to those around me, I'm quite good at this. Kind of a master if you will. Living here in WA State the last three years has allowed me to ...

Cancer runs in my familia, it has killed some amazing people in our lives and it is a hard subject. I lost my world in 97 when my Gama died from leukemia, to any one in my familia it feels like yesterday... So I hid being sick from my out of state familia (I moved to WA state 3 years ago). Being raised by my tias they ache for me as if I was their own. I simply didn't want them to worry about me all the way up here, and a part of me didnt want to deal with the pleas to come "home". Everyone havi...