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The Quiet Aftermath
After survival, nobody warns you about the quiet aftermath. The emergency is over, but the maintenance begins: appointments, pills, recalibration, and the strange pressure to seem finished when you are not. This is life in the administrative chapter after crisis. It is not dramatic, but it still counts.
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This is Concerning for Malignancy
A chilling message in the patient portal reopened every fear cancer survivors know too well. After abnormal scans and rising tumor markers, I found myself waiting for answers no one wants, trapped between medical caution and memory, while one brutally honest truth kept circling back: cancer still sucks.
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NASCAR, for the Newly Initiated
What began as wings, beer, and a completely unscientific choice of the hottest driver turned into a full-blown NASCAR obsession, a solo road trip to Atlanta, a near brush with Georgia law enforcement, a rain-soaked speedway revelation, and one unforgettable night sleeping in a Walmart parking lot with a revolver.
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The Eye That Would Not Die
Seventeen years ago, a vicious eye infection nearly cost me my sight and my life. What followed involved an airlift to Seattle, a terrifying MedJet flight, a drug-dealing hospital roommate, an overdose, an escaped prisoner asking about dragons, and a bill proving that terror, apparently, is very expensive.
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The Problem with Shelter in Place
When Hurricane Irma turned toward Florida’s west coast, I found myself riding it out alone with one frightened dog, three vulnerable glass doors, and a bathroom masquerading as a storm shelter. What followed was fear, absurdity, unexpected grace, and one very unsettling amphibian chorus in the eye of chaos.
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70 Staples
Seventy staples closed the incision, but they also became something larger: a measure of the quiet, stubborn effort required to hold a life together through reconstruction. This is not a story about healing neatly. It is about what remains after survival, repair, and the long, unglamorous work of rebuilding.
70 Staples – Not broken. Rebuilt.
Survival, reinvention, and the questionable dignity of being human.
70 Staples - Not broken. Rebuilt. 