Lord, have Your way in me.
I took this picture as a funny “ha ha! look at my view” to send to a friend. Little did I know in that moment that this picture would be part of a post where again I’m sharing news about my health. Ladies - this is your reminder to make sure you have an annual appointment scheduled with your OB/GYN and to not overlook symptoms that you think you know what they’re from. Last Friday I had an appointment with my OB/GYN to discuss all these lovely perimenopause symptoms I’ve been enduring for the last 6 months or so. The last 4 months I was dealing with one particularly annoying symptom that I assumed was from peri. I was wrong. What I thought would be a normal appointment with a plan to present to my hematologist ended up being a discussion of the next steps to rule out the concern of cancer. There’s that word again. Another gut punch. Another moment the wind was knocked out of my sails. Another health concern where that C word overwhelms every part of mind. I took a deep br...