puravida-purelife:

From Ireland, read the whole thing.

imjustsarahcate:

Sometimes… Late late at night when I can’t sleep and the whole house is quiet… All I can think, over and over and over is

I can’t believe I have Cancer.

^THIS^

This so much.

This has been the main thing in my life since last August, and I still have a hard time convincing myself that this is my reality. 

I’m really just a big awkward dork but

YAY :D

Hi hi hi welcome!

stophatingyourbody:

Dear Friends,

This is Sarah. Sarah has been a major contributor to SHYB over the past year (and more!) She is the author of this incredible poem. She has spread positivity throughout the tumblrsphere and beyond, and she’s just a fantastic person.

Recently she was diagnosed with cancer and had some pretty serious surgery. As she is recovering, her bills are piling up. With chemo ahead of her, she’s unable to go back to work. You can read more about her situation here.

She’s set up a donation page, and it would mean so much to me if anyone here could give back to someone who’s given this site so much. Even just five dollars can add up. And if nothing else, a reblog of this post would be awesome. I’ve seen Tumblr come together as a community and do some unbelievable things—let’s make this another success story!

Here is the donation page: http://www.gofundme.com/ozgh4

Let’s all send Sarah good thoughts and hope for a speedy recovery. She is brave and strong and wonderful, and she’s been through a lot this year.

Thank you so much, guys!

Love,

Amber

Asked by creekwalking

Thanks… I’m definitely doing a lot better than I expected! I was really worried about this mastectomy business, but it wasn’t nearly as bad as I thought :).

Hellooooo

TUMBLR!!! How I’ve missed you!

Yeah, I haven’t been posting much on here- I have actually not been on my computer a lot lately, GASP!

I KNOW.

Fear not, I haven’t lost my geekiness! I’ve been spending a lot of time playing video games- mostly Skyrim, and InFamous, then I downloaded this game called Journey off on PS Network and played it several times in a row (it’s really short). That and Netflix have been passing the time lately- I’m trapped in the house a lot, not much else to do.

Bitchy section:

I’ve been feeling pretty blah the past month or so, not much oomph. Probably because there are a lot of random annoying pains around my noboob area, and in my arm. No swelling or anything, just aches and needly pains.

A bit TMI: I’m also REALLY annoyed because I can’t shave my right armpit by myself. I have one hand, it’s on the mastectomy side. My whole life I’ve had no problems shaving my right armpit with my right hand, but now it just won’t turn that way any more. Because of the surgery, there is a pretty deep indentation in that area too that makes it even harder. Grrr! I have to plan my showering around when my husband or roommate are around so they can shave it for me, which is really nice of THEM, but VERY annoying for me, SIGH.

There is also the annoying gross part of my incision that opened up. It took a little while, but my surgeon’s office eventually arranged for a home health aide to come check it out. On her advice, they have me on Santyl ointment- it eats away the necrotic tissue so the wound can heal. It’s looking a lot better and seems to be starting to close, finally.

I’m extra super annoyed with my body lately because the damn psoriasis that started up pre-cancer is now coming back! There are big splotches of it on my elbows/arms, smaller dots on my legs, back, and FACE. ON MY FREAKING FACE- really, psoriasis? I need this? There’s a bunch on my ears too, ugh. I can kind of cover up what’s on my face, but it still shows. 

Well, at least my hair has finally grown in enough that it’s harder to tell how thin it still is at top. 

BUT not really feeling super cute these days.

Me 3 years ago vs me now:

LOOK HOW CUTE I WAS. I WAS FREAKING ADORABLE.

Stupid body! Stupid cancer/psoriasis/etc!

I’m sure you noticed I didn’t mention cancer much in this post. The team at Moffitt was convinced I don’t need radiation, but since they hadn’t sent my final pathology report to my oncologist when I saw her a couple of weeks ago, she didn’t know what to make of that. I go back to my cancer center June 6th, then I’ll find out what they think, and if they still want me to do radiation. They had to wait to see me, because the open wound on my incision had to be healed up before they could do anything anyway. My point is, I’ll know more what’s going on after next week.

ANYWAY…

I will be partying it all out, though in a week. I’m throwing the “I’m Turning 39 And Still Kicking Cancer In The Face” party for my birthday on June 8th- if you are in my area, feel free to join us :D.

Asked by fredneezhnies

I soooo want to, but my hair is still so thin at the top it may look stupid… I wish my hair would fill in already, stupid chemo head >_<

Asked by chiaki26

I was thinking of just doing pink or lavender, but screw that- I’m going all PASTEL RAINBOW :D