Diagnosis / Treatment Update: Chemo Part One, by the Numbers

Diagnosis / Treatment Update: "Optimize to the X"

Chemo set one, complete. Now it’s time for the next block. This episode is about surviving cancer one day at a time, breaking impossible things into manageable pieces, and borrowing a mindset from the human-performance world to stay psychologically afloat through dual-cancer treatment.

FAQ: How Did You Tell People? (or, Leveraging Your Strengths in the Face of Trauma)

How do you tell people the worst news of your life? This episode is about cancer, crisis communications, spreadsheets, trauma, strategic messaging plans, and the strange things we cling to when our lives explode. Also: audience segmentation, Instagram rollout strategy, and why being a former communications professional turned out to be unexpectedly useful during a dual cancer diagnosis.

The Incidents

Charlottesville. Quantum theory. First love. Trenches. French fries. Rainstorms and reiki. A story about strange timing, parallel lives, and the people who arrive exactly when you need them—even if you don’t understand why yet.

Diagnosis / Treatment Update: Chemo Part One, by the Numbers

Chemo by the numbers: bloodwork trends, step counts, hydration, iron infusions, weight gain, and what happens when survival starts looking like data points on a graph.

Things that are Weird: Part Seven

On runny noses, new friends, and gallows humor.