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09/11/2026

I have a love-hate relationship with early morning appointments.🤣 What’s your favorite appointment time? 🤔 # # # # #

09/11/2026

First off… can we please give a round of applause to my amazing nurse for taking my photo? 👏🏼 She’s pretty much a badass in all things, and Ty was STRUGGLING with the angles. 🤣 Now onto the weekly check-in… Round 2 Week 1 Chemo day. Let’s be real: I’m tired. Like bone-deep, could-sleep-for-approximately-47-business-days tired. 😴 But my body is fighting one hell of a fight right now, and my job is to listen to it, fuel it, rest it, and give it the grace to do what it needs to do. The BIG win this week: I didn’t have a reaction to the new chemo! 🙌🏼 And around here, we celebrate EVERY. SINGLE. WIN. Going forward, I’ll be getting 2.5 liters of fluids with every round of chemo, along with a whole cocktail of other goodies to help with nausea and keep my kidneys from throwing a temper tantrum. Apparently, no one warns you what 2.5 liters of fluid at once does to your body. 🫣🤣 I left looking a little like someone hit the “inflate” button, but hey… hydrated queen. 💅🏼😂 The nausea from this new chemo should make its grand entrance around Sunday/Monday. As always, we hope for the best and prepare for the worst. We’re hoping it stays minimal, but I have an incredible medical team that has us stocked and ready with meds if it decides to show up acting disrespectful.🙄 But overall? I feel GOOD. ❤️ Am I tired? Absolutely. Is my body working overtime? Yep. Am I slowing down when it tells me to? I’m learning. 😂🫣 Am I still showing up, smiling, laughing, loving my people and kicking cancer’s ass? You freaking bet I am.👏💪 This season is teaching me that strength doesn’t always look like pushing harder. Sometimes strength looks like resting. Sometimes it looks like accepting help. 🥹 Sometimes it looks like celebrating something as simple as making it through another treatment.💪 And sometimes it looks like being swollen, exhausted, pumped full of fluids and chemo…and still finding something to laugh about. 🤣❤️ Still here. Still grateful. Still fighting. Still me. One treatment, one win, one day at a time. I love y’all SO big. Go get your smears and smashes!

09/11/2026

First off… can we please give a round of applause to my amazing nurse for taking my photo? 👏🏼 She’s pretty much a badass in all things, and Ty was STRUGGLING with the angles. 🤣

Now onto the weekly check-in… Round 2 Week 1 Chemo day. Let’s be real: I’m tired. Like bone-deep, could-sleep-for-approximately-47-business-days tired. 😴 But my body is fighting one hell of a fight right now, and my job is to listen to it, fuel it, rest it, and give it the grace to do what it needs to do.

The BIG win this week: I didn’t have a reaction to the new chemo! 🙌🏼 And around here, we celebrate EVERY. SINGLE. WIN. Going forward, I’ll be getting 2.5 liters of fluids with every round of chemo, along with a whole cocktail of other goodies to help with nausea and keep my kidneys from throwing a temper tantrum.

Apparently, no one warns you what 2.5 liters of fluid at once does to your body. 🫣🤣 I left looking a little like someone hit the “inflate” button, but hey… hydrated queen. 💅🏼😂

The nausea from this new chemo should make its grand entrance around Sunday/Monday. As always, we hope for the best and prepare for the worst. We’re hoping it stays minimal, but I have an incredible medical team that has us stocked and ready with meds if it decides to show up acting disrespectful.🙄

But overall? I feel GOOD. ❤️
Am I tired? Absolutely.
Is my body working overtime? Yep.
Am I slowing down when it tells me to? I’m learning. 😂🫣
Am I still showing up, smiling, laughing, loving my people and kicking cancer’s ass? You freaking bet I am.👏💪

This season is teaching me that strength doesn’t always look like pushing harder. Sometimes strength looks like resting. Sometimes it looks like accepting help. 🥹 Sometimes it looks like celebrating something as simple as making it through another treatment.💪 And sometimes it looks like being swollen, exhausted, pumped full of fluids and chemo…and still finding something to laugh about. 🤣❤️

Still here. Still grateful. Still fighting. Still me. One treatment, one win, one day at a time.

I love y’all SO big. Go get your smears and smashes!

09/10/2026

2/25 Radiation complete! This is the external beam radiation machine I get to stare at 5 days a week. 🫣. Now off to chemo week 1 of 5! Then to get new mapping for radiation. I should start my new mapping plan Tuesday. 👏❤️❤️ Love y’all so big!

09/09/2026

You. Are. Enough. ✨💪 Plus, nothings better than proving people wrong. 👏Just a little inspiration from Dolly today. 💕

09/09/2026

Day 1/25 done! Not the outcome I was hoping for but we have a new plan in place. ❤️💪 Please send some prayers or well wishes that the side effects are nonexistent or very minimal over the next few days. I love y’all so big! ❤️❤️

09/04/2026

I’m going to try and list it some out here as well. I know I speak quietly, so please ask questions! Remember, every cancer journey is different. This is a cost effective way to cold cap during chemotherapy hair loss. ❤️
Moleskin for your forehead. You can also use it to protect your ears.
Dry ice safe cooler. Leave the vent open and the top ajar. SuzzyCaps from the zon in a gallon ziplock bag. Bring 2-3 extra caps just incase. Break up the dry ice and disburse evenly over the caps. Hope this helps someone. Love y’all so big!

09/03/2026

Y’ALL. I can’t even believe I’m saying this… 6 WEEKS OF CHEMO. ROUND ONE IS OFFICIALLY IN THE BOOKS! 🙌🏼🎉💪🏼 No more cold capping or icing my hands and feet!! 👏 How freaking amazing is that?! I’m not gonna lie, this week TRIED to take me out. 😂 Between the bloody noses, severe musculoskeletal pain, port placement, mouth and gum sores, and my first round of major hair loss… it’s been a WEEK. But guess what? I’M STILL HERE. STILL FIGHTING. STILL KICKING CANCER’S ASS. 👊🏼 And I absolutely could not do this without the army of people surrounding me. Every comment, text, message, prayer, check-in, and well wish means more than I could ever put into words. On the hard days, I feel every single bit of that love. 🥹❤️ Now we turn the page and head into Week 1 of our next 5-week chemo cycle. One round down. Next one up. LET’S. FREAKING. GO. 🔥💪🏼 And because I’m going to keep saying it until everyone listens: GO GET YOUR SMEARS & SMASHES. 👏🏼 Take care of your bodies. Make the appointments. Get the screenings. Don’t put yourself on the back burner. I love y’all SO freaking big. ❤️ Here’s to the next round. Cancer picked the wrong bitch. 😘💅

09/03/2026

I can’t thank y’all enough for making this a possibility for us! 💕💕

09/03/2026

WE FREAKING DID IT! It’s the last day of chemo for round one!!! 💪💪 It’s also Mel’s birthday!! 🎉 So much to celebrate today! I LOVE YALL SO Big!!

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