Gratitude

One last health update for 2025. Coming out of these few days of family, friends, and opportunities for thankfulness, I continued to celebrate the care and support of this amazing community.

Thank you for walking with Hana and I during my initial diagnosis and treatment.

Thank you for holding onto hope for full healing, and for the many ways you showed up with tangible help along the way.

Thank you for coming alongside us with love.

I am grateful to have passed the one year mark of surgery and radiation with no returning cancer. I’m especially grateful to be finished with the active and ongoing treatment that comes with diagnosis.

I continue to work with my medical team to manage the ever changing effects of lymphedema. We were able to secure a FlexiTouch machine that I use twice a day for 50-minute treatments. It helps move the gathering fluid away from my left arm and chest, and encourage healthy lymphatic drainage. We still haven’t found the perfect way to manage these new symptoms, but every step helps us refine the treatment and get closer to the goal of manageable pain, stronger muscles, and freedom of movement.

Thank you for staying with us on this wild ride. For Advent this year, I am going to do a series of *regular* blog posts (non health related) on the themes of this season: hope, peace, joy, and love. The first post is here. If you’d like to receive notifications for when those post, you can subscribe to the mailing list.

I will keep this page open for occasional updates as things change, or to celebrate new milestones. However, I’m grateful to have the energy and returning creativity that will allow me to work on new projects and communicate in other ways.

Once again, thank you. This community has served as a lifeline for us, and I’m ever so grateful.

Hope With Me:

• Continued freedom from cancer and for the interventions (walking, meds, physical therapy, and monitoring) to continue to nurture my health and wellbeing.
• Relief from the effects of lymphedema, and wisdom for my medical team as we manage the symptoms.
• For Hana’s new year as a high school freshman. Join me in cheering her on academically, athletically, and in gathering a community of friends who will build her up and make her laugh when she most needs it.