Finally back on here and it’s been a month since receiving the long-awaited CANCER FREE call🥹🥲🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

Being a little chilly? No good. But getting a little cozy? Now that’s the stuff

HILDEGARD VON BLINGEN IS SUCH A GOATED ARTIST NAME

Whoever’s writing this season of my life has no sense of pacing

Truly astonished that my clinic received 16 (SIXTEEN??) applications for students wanting to do their practicum with me for the Sept term. Absolutely wild. I’m so honoured and also v whelmed lol

Would be nice to have some precedented times, as a treat.

Super do not recommend baking cookies while pissed off

As a therapist I can confirm this would be a valid way to suss out how *impactful* (pos, neg, or neutral) you are as a human lol

Also it’s wild that cancer is literally just a cell deciding, unilaterally, that it’s going to choose violence and cause unhinged chaos on the rest of the body. Ok that’s all of my uninformed cancer musings for the day thank u for tuning in (3/3)

“Lemme go book a scan and get that tissue cut off of my body and then get it sent to a lab”. And then and ONLY then do you get a YES/NO/MAYBE This is Cancer. Is that wild to anyone else???? Idk maybe I just live under a rock and this is common knowledge. (2/3)

Am I a naïve ding dong for assuming that science has progressed to the point where you can find out if you have cancer (or not) by doing a MRI or CT scan???? Cause it hasn’t, at least not for the type of cancer I have (DFSP sarcoma). You literally have to just be like “hm that bump is new” (1/3)

Extremely my shit

Wooooooo🔋🔋🔋

Cancer surg recovery has been going well :) less pain and more mobility as each day goes by! I’ve been quite low energy since Friday but I’m chalking it up to my bod In Recovery and that takes a lot of horsepower. Also @paulch.in has been taking very good care of me 🥲💕

Absolutely wild that the doctors sent me home after a Yeeting the Cancer surgery and just told me to take Tylenol lol

All in all I am feeling fine, just very tired and sore. I have to stay off my feet and keep the bandage on and dry (no showers) for two days 🥲

My stitches are dissolvable and I have to return in six weeks for a check up.

If there isn’t any more cancer (what they call “clear margins”), then I’m all good. If they find more, I have to get booked for another surgery.

The type of surgery I had was “slow Mohs”, where they take out the tumour with a margin around it. And then they slice it up into slides so it can be assessed for any remaining cancer.

They were done under two hours and one doctor got to work dyeing and slicing up the tissue to get sent to be processed. I got stitched up and we talked about sewing and cosplay lol.

We covered GOT, HOTD, the new Jerry Springer docuseries, our fave spots in Montréal, pets, my work, their work, etc etc

They poked me with countless pokes of lidocaine first to numb the area, and then got to slicing and dicing. You don’t feel pain but you feel all the tugging and pressure. I was sweating buckets and trying not to think of what was happening so I made lots of small talk with the doctors lol

Ok so what they don’t tell you is that for most sarcoma surgeries you’re awake lol. I learned that OHIP has scaled back using general anaesthesia for procedures, even stuff like hip replacements and knee surgeries. You’ll just be sitting there awake while a team of doctors is slicing and sewing🫠

Headed into surgery to get this cancer yeeted off my body, wish me luck

@paulch.in made the most perfect slow-roasted honey-butter pork ribs and they took longer than expected but we stayed up til 2am cause why not, make good mems!!! and then we hunched over the kitchen counter eating them like happy gremlins. I love life with you @paulch.in 🤟🏼🤟🏼🤟🏼

A photo of Polly the badger wrapped up all cozy in a white blanket, but her face looks like she’s lived several lifetimes (exhausted).

A submission for a series of self-portraits:
Me, a Fully Certified Clinical Supervisor and Registered Psychotherapist, Group Practice Owner (and This is How I Feel Today).

A line drawing of a beige-coloured, bedraggled dog with glasses perched on its forehead. The dog is squinting, befuddled at a piece of paper in its hands.

imagine asking this dude to be your therapist. Cause I am this dude 90% of the time.

Funny thing about having cancer is that most of the time it doesn’t *feel* like u have cancer.

lmk if u find the creator cause I wanna credit this excellent content

Watching people from the US migrate en masse to Rednote and discover they've been falsely propagandized to so intensely about China is pretty stellar actually.