“Did you see that? Did the image just jump?” she asks. We’re watching Orphan Black, and she asks again, using a term in the series, “Did you see that or am I glitching?” Unsure, I reply that there were some flashing cut scenes. The holiday period in recent... Read More

Writing this update has been a challenge over the past weeks. Many hours and days, the mind stayed blank and the right words could not form. Then there were nights the words flowed and journal snippets made sense, but I struggled to grasp if the words were representative of the one making the... Read More

(email update) Hello, Hope the summer has been well and kind to you. Felt it would be nice to take a moment to share an encouraging update, instead of just treatment changes. To re-cap, at the end of spring, we reached a point for treatments whereby the general clinical practice was to... Read More

(email update) Hello, Another update on treatment, a little sooner than expected. And again rather brief. Trying to complete a deeper blog post had simply brought on emotions; the kind which relieves the rawness of one’s heart, but clouds the needed clarity of one’s... Read More

(email update) Dear friend,Thank you for thinking of Annie, thought I would write a brief update. I have been admittedly too lazy to solve the tech issues with writing to the blog. About six weeks ago, a scan revealed progression, indicating that the chemotherapy she was on had ceased to... Read More