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Moving Forward: A New Year and A New Perspective
Good bye to 2025 Happy New Year. May this year be better than the last. That sentence carries more weight for me this year. 2025 had its ups and downs. Beyond the state of the world, my personal world was shaken. It began with a leap of faith—moving to a new city and selling my
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Brain Fog, Protein, and Paul
Surgery is weird. The anesthesia — I was under for seven hours. And my brain now is slower. I’m lagging. I can’t remember words as quickly. Hell, I just feel slower. Unstable. Unfamiliar. I don’t remember this from last surgery, 5 years ago. But now that I’m thinking about it… This feels like the cancer
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Being Here
After the shock of a pancreatic cancer diagnosis, I found freedom in the unexpected — no chemo, just the reminder to truly be here.
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Food Thoughts: Prepping For My New Digestive Life
Thoughts on what healing from the whipple may be like.
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Packing, Moving, and Surgery — Again
The insanity of moving, cleaning, packing and prepping for surgery.

