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Since starting this site I haven’t been around much. I apologize for that because it seems everyone else out there has been busy seeing me here at LiLoCa. If you have emailed or registered, I ask that you be patient as I am not where I once was in life or in love. However, I [...]

I’m not the woman I used to be. Somewhere along the way I feel as if I have matured. Part of me thinks that I may have even chilled out a little bit when it comes to things that don’t make a difference in the big scheme of things.
Gone are the days that I jumped [...]

We’re on the eighth part of Life. Love. Cancer. It seems odd to say it, but I’m kind of sad that we’re at this part already. Writing these posts has helped me in ways I hadn’t even realized.
They have been challenging but in a good way. Many times I have struggled and wondered where I [...]

I don’t think that anyone can ever explain what happens to a person when they stand toe to toe with a terminal diagnosis. Unless you have been there and experienced it, there’s no way you can help someone else to understand. Yet, people ask all the time.
They want to know what it’s like to do [...]

I wrote it but it seems kind of silly. Still, it came from the heart, so I wanted to share it with those of you who are following Life.Love.Cancer.
Dear Cancer,
Let me begin by saying that I know that writing this will likely do absolutely nothing. I acknowledge that this is an exercise in futility. Still, [...]

I’m more in love with my husband now than I ever was before. I probably didn’t know or understand just what love really was until the oncologists told me that I might not have it. I was a stupid girl living in a make-believe world, full of romance novel misunderstandings and real world consequences.
Along with [...]

I can’t even begin to tell you what it feels like. They deliver the news like it’s no big deal, like it happens every single day. Their eyes won’t meet yours and they glance at the clock above your head or clear the reminders from their pagers.
All you can do is watch your body from [...]

Long before the diagnosis, long before the seizures and the struggles within my marriage, cancer had completely taken my body over. I was tired and lethargic. I’d gone from working hours upon hours as a nurse to being unable to fix a full meal for our family. Exhaustion had taken hold.
As with many female issues, [...]

Even before the scan showed that the cancer had spread to my brain, I guess I knew something had changed. Headaches became more intense and far more frequent than the ones that usually accompanied radiation. I started forgetting things that I would normally never forget. (Anyone who knows me knows that I never forget anything- [...]