https://www.reverierising.com/blog daily 1.0 2021-04-18 https://www.reverierising.com/blog/recovery monthly 0.5 2021-04-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cb55d9151f4d41671ce087f/1618713974441-63H3SOM8C99NSDY1YZAY/mom.jpg News - Recovery Our last outing with Mom, back in 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cb55d9151f4d41671ce087f/1618714471821-T8WLYZKTNZZDDEB0S6W9/boots+and+beer.jpg News - Recovery Pretending that I wasn’t totally sick all day to rally for a night out with friends. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cb55d9151f4d41671ce087f/1618714869592-UDM7SYB0O1LP656UYNGW/nih+visit.jpg News - Recovery Prepping for my CT scan at my 3-month follow-up visit to NIH. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cb55d9151f4d41671ce087f/1618714625141-ZI8V9J66A77L43X0SOWC/hair.jpg News - Recovery The official post-hair loss chop in May. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cb55d9151f4d41671ce087f/1618715027204-OTK3896LB78V934KFKBH/nih+visit+dec.jpg News - Recovery My 1-year follow-up visit to NIH in December. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cb55d9151f4d41671ce087f/1618713784775-HHHBZX2BEWNWDFTLZT9N/mom+50th.jpg News - Recovery Mom on her 50th birthday. https://www.reverierising.com/blog/surgery monthly 0.5 2020-10-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cb55d9151f4d41671ce087f/1603750071173-S0CW7NWC2SUFSSQPRFG3/IMG_8629.JPG News - Surgery Finally to Bethesda, after a long day of travel and a few small-town girl hiccups. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cb55d9151f4d41671ce087f/1603743612850-SUICRYBERKFHSV3K3MF5/IMG_8656.jpg News - Surgery Very casually hiding my admission bracelets up my sleeve and laughing at how hard our waiter is judging our choices. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cb55d9151f4d41671ce087f/1603690537970-JEOXLZET16WMIONYUSTF/Gastrectomy-Before-and-After.png News - Surgery The Roux-en-y total gastrectomy procedure. This is what my insides look like now - pretty wild. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cb55d9151f4d41671ce087f/1603693187955-Z1HMSZAHPRPRUB17YETP/IMG_4274.jpg News - Surgery The seahorse is the unofficial mascot of CDH1 mutants because, just like us, they live without stomachs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cb55d9151f4d41671ce087f/1603747811527-4B7VMGCQDBC00MUV6DC6/F680AA3C-59DC-4C1D-B030-DB896CDB98B0.jpg News - Surgery My why. The reason I made it this far. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cb55d9151f4d41671ce087f/1603747632674-K5ZVJZWBK4QS3EGW7QD6/IMG_4158.jpg News - Surgery Realizing I would be recovering on the Oncology floor made it all seem much more real. It’s hard to feel healthy and still choose to do something so drastic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cb55d9151f4d41671ce087f/1603747811219-PKZRDNXHC2XHNPI6OWMN/IMG_4131.jpg News - Surgery All of my admission bands I spent two days trying to hide in public. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cb55d9151f4d41671ce087f/1603747625789-Z0C7F3YTOA4RDS1CSJW9/IMG_8701.JPG News - Surgery Waiting for the call to head to pre-op. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cb55d9151f4d41671ce087f/1603747625876-EJX8V867K11XSJVFU46H/IMG_8732.JPG News - Surgery Minutes before being taken back to the OR. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cb55d9151f4d41671ce087f/1603751792187-KIDQHXSP44G1MJRSY4SB/IMG_4171%28Edited%29.jpg News - Surgery My first meal: veggie broth, diluted grape juice and peppermint tea. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cb55d9151f4d41671ce087f/1603751791977-VMN29L72UCCZL5ZH9UJ5/IMG_4199.jpg News - Surgery My first “real food” meal: mac and cheese, mashed potatoes and cottage cheese. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cb55d9151f4d41671ce087f/1603744423322-T7QRCF0PCII65W658BGN/IMG_0824.JPG News - Surgery Katie, Wendy and I a half a lifetime ago. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cb55d9151f4d41671ce087f/1603744420031-BLYVZSPX5ML08WXLSD5F/IMG_8882.JPG News - Surgery Wendy, Katie and me all in the same room for the first time since 2012! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cb55d9151f4d41671ce087f/1603748668795-AMA3MME9X0RKDKQVZ64Z/IMG_4291.JPG News - Surgery The face of sheer misery, and the legs and feet of epic proportions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cb55d9151f4d41671ce087f/1603748669403-DO091HAYXPLGQNUKQ96E/IMG_4306.JPG News - Surgery The walks that were so easy a few days before became a huge struggle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cb55d9151f4d41671ce087f/1603748666828-RQDYS1PI54E0BGUKK2DN/IMG_4289.JPG News - Surgery Attempting to walk through the winter market on the first floor for a change of scenery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cb55d9151f4d41671ce087f/1603748665944-K6M8A1OJNCFLIT2E45MB/IMG_4285.JPG News - Surgery The scarf that made me cry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cb55d9151f4d41671ce087f/1603748713098-HCVZKZFYUDNY7V7K6Q1H/IMG_4277.jpg News - Surgery Proof that we played cards. Golf, apparently. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cb55d9151f4d41671ce087f/1603748665933-KGRK483P17NJVDYSXDSI/IMG_4282.JPG News - Surgery Dad leaving without me on the day I was originally supposed to be discharged. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cb55d9151f4d41671ce087f/1603748668276-308HHAKJPQQF04OTDYW6/IMG_4304.JPG News - Surgery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cb55d9151f4d41671ce087f/1603749662110-JNUN4ETXCTN8S2GXXUXN/IMG_8647.JPG News - Surgery Shoutout to all of these amazing people who dropped their own lives to come and stay with me in the hospital. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cb55d9151f4d41671ce087f/1603749641507-2EI4073AG6LALGB1X5MO/IMG_1860.jpg News - Surgery I can’t begin to tell you how grateful I was and am for all of them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cb55d9151f4d41671ce087f/1603749642081-ZP2TYC11ZF7USOY6VGQ8/IMG_0800.jpeg News - Surgery I love them all so much. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cb55d9151f4d41671ce087f/1603749660896-JO9ERODGUJ3A4PSWZCGE/IMG_4322.jpg News - Surgery They made a hard situation so much easier to bear. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cb55d9151f4d41671ce087f/1603749653677-P5JHPOM35QSMJFTXPKRX/IMG_4281.JPG News - Surgery And I hope they know I would do it for them in a heartbeat too. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cb55d9151f4d41671ce087f/1603749662815-MJJIARIICDQA7J06F2LW/IMG_1957.jpeg News - Surgery Honorary mention to my boys in Omaha who made me sweet get well soon signs. https://www.reverierising.com/blog/11-7 monthly 0.5 2020-10-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cb55d9151f4d41671ce087f/1571310647892-4B1P50WT1Q0SGXGGB6KT/Marriott+Balcony News - 11/7 The hotel was very nice, but this luxurious balcony had me cracking up and left me with questions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cb55d9151f4d41671ce087f/1571310758745-BL706574EAHJZZ6G069G/Bruise News - 11/7 The bruise so big you can’t even see it all in one photo! 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