Death by Lettuce

Closing Death by Lettuce

2011-03-18T10:43:00.003-04:00

I am sure by now this is not a big surprise, as I haven't written any new entries in months. This is actually a good thing, means I have other things going on in my life besides cancer... which is awesome. I have had a lot of e-mails lately from people wanting to post articles and things on my blog, I apologize for lack of responses... I have literally been crazy busy. Why? Because I'm moving

Losing your cancer virginity

2010-11-23T23:27:00.000-05:00

Cancer is surprisingly like sex. We all have stories about our first time. There's even bases before you "score" so to speak. And I don't think ever getting another diagnosis of cancer is every quite the same as that first time.First base: Doctor finds a lumpSecond base: testsThird base: the phone callHome: the face to face diagnosisFirst base:Student health... I was there for my yearly. The

A friend lost

2010-08-25T22:00:00.003-04:00

I learned today that I lost a friend. We weren't close friends... we've had drinks together at parties... he was more of my friend's friend... people thought that we should be friends, and tried to get us to be friends because what we had in common was that we were both law school cancer survivors, and then young lawyers dealing with cancer. I think for this very reason we didn't actually

"I'm not quite dead... I think I'll go for a walk now... I feel happy... I feel Happy!"

2010-07-15T22:09:00.002-04:00

Ok, so I went on a hiatus... a very long, hiatus. A very long hiatus that may or may not continue. But, quite frankly, I haven't had that much to write about. And seeing as I sit in front of a computer all day doing work, and not even fooling around on the internet... I lose motivation to write when I get home.So cancer related stuff:My Peace Corps application got put on hold b/c they wanted a

Anytime Fitness Total Body Challenge

2010-05-12T20:14:00.007-04:00

So as you all may remember, my New Year's resolution this year was to put my life back where it was 5 years ago, namely by getting back to my pre-cancer weight. Now I've kept quiet about how all this as gone after this summer's weekly updates resulting in my embarrassment once I just stopped. But I've been doing the Body Challenge, and have in fact crushed my pre-cancer weight. My

Dive for a Cure

2010-05-04T16:53:00.000-04:00

I did something awesome this weekend (correction... this is more like a month ago now)... I did "Dive for a Cure"... Now, I know by this point everyone and their mother has some sort of race or marathon to raise money for this that and the other thing... this was soo much cooler. Dive for a Cure is Scuba diving to raise money for cancer research and things. Diver's are a special breed of people

Insurance Vent

2010-04-30T07:12:00.003-04:00

They've increased my insurance by $150 a month... It now costs me about $750 to be insured... and they don't even pay my meds.Sigh... the reality is, to get out of my house and be independent I'm going to have to quit the job I like and feel good about, and go sell my soul to the highest bidder w/ benefits. :(

And a Drum Roll Please...

2010-04-25T07:17:00.002-04:00

I PASSED THE BAR!!!! I'm officially a lawyer now.On a related note, I also picked up a job. I'm now working at a small firm doing loan modifications and stopping foreclosures on homes. Pay sucks and there are no hours, but I couldn't have asked for a better group to work with, learn as much, and still feel good about myself at the end of the day.My life rocks my socks right now... hope it

Dear Thyroid: Thyeulogy

2010-04-20T15:55:00.000-04:00

Way way way back in February when I found out I was cancer free, I wrote a new letter to Dear Thyroid, which I have called my Thyeulogy.They posted it back at the end of March, but it became one of the million things I never finished my blog post for. So just in case you haven't read it, here's the link: Thyeulogy

Yoga Bear and the Yoga Challenge

2010-04-12T15:38:00.000-04:00

Over the past month I've written about half of 5 different blog posts. Many of which were time sensitive and I failed miserably at finishing and publishing them when I needed to. I've been busy running around, having a life, etc. All of which I hope to update you on over the next few posts. But first I'm going to start with yet another time sensitive one.Today I want to talk to you all about

I NEED YOUR HELP!!!!

2010-03-16T16:12:00.003-04:00

Ok, I can't believe I'm doing this but I am pulling all of my social networking cred to ask everyone out there to spend 1 minute of their time to vote for me for a competition called Host Our Cost.Vote for me here--> Host Our CoastThe competition is this: spend the summer backpacking the Delmarva Peninsula Blogging about it. You get $15,000 and free room and board, and you have to go out and

My Introduction to Cancer and Relationships

2010-03-08T11:29:00.001-05:00

So, I’ve been looking over my posts over the last year or so (can’t believe I’ve been posting for over a year), and I’ve started to notice that I tend to only talk about my immediate reactions to what I’m dealing with at that moment. I am an emo blogger… a part of me just died. Granted, this is sort of the whole purpose of the blog: something to keep me from bottling up everything making me a

The Price of Staying on Top of my Health

2010-03-04T13:56:00.002-05:00

$839I'm not going to get into a debate on the cost of health care here. I'm just going to make some very basic statements of fact about that number you are looking at up there. I am lucky; I pay an arm and a leg every month, and the occasional promise of a first born child to keep me insured. One month of health coverage costs more than one month of my last rent. And being that I'm lucky,

Death by Lettuce Beginnings

2010-03-01T12:40:00.000-05:00

Another quite ancient post that I found deep in the recesses of my hard drive. This is from August/Septemberish 2007 I think. A lot of this is probably gonna sound pretty familiar, particularly the last paragraph. But really, I wrote it all a year before I even thought of starting this blog. This was actually meant to be the start of my book that never quite panned out...