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The Mess Behind Mojo and the Mess: Why I Started This Site
The Days After My First Enhertu Treatment
Chemo Day (According to Mojo)
Stop Calling It a Battle: The Language We Use in Cancer
I Built the Website I Needed When I Was Scared
Terminal Twenties
Strong on the Outside, Screaming on the Inside
You Can Be Grateful and Still Angry
Mojo Live Tweets: Reporting From the Couch (Unpaid Intern Edition)
I Haven’t Started Treatment Yet, and My Body Is Already So Tired
Preparing My House for Chemo Again
The Overlap Between Cancer Symptoms and Medication Side Effects
If You’re Starting the Year Feeling a Little Messy, You’re in the Right Place
The Year That Took More Than It Gave
Mojo’s Thoughts on Mom Starting Treatment Again
Chemo Trauma: The Body Remembers
New Year, New Deductible, Same Cancer
If You Love Someone Who’s Sick and Don’t Know How to Help, This Is It
A Christmas Thank You (From the Bottom of Our Messy Hearts)
Christmas Without a Pause Button
When the Holidays Don’t Look Like They Used To
A Christmas Update
You Are Not Doing This Wrong
For the Ones We’ve Lost, and the Families Still Here
Rude Things People Say to Sick People (That They Think Are Helpful)
Why the Pain Scale Doesn’t Work for Chronic Illness and Cancer
Terminal Twenties❤️
The Part of Cancer No One Warns You About: Losing Each Other
Living With Brain Mets Is Like Sharing Your Head With a Stranger
A Christmas Letter for People Who Are Just Trying to Survive
The Mess Behind Mojo and the Mess: Why I Started This Site
The Quiet Ruin of a Young Woman With Cancer
The Days That Don’t Make It to Instagram
Reposting an older blog today because I’ve got a pretty bad migraine and I can’t stare at the screen too long. This one still feels real and relevant, and maybe someone out there needs it today. 💛
🧠 The Symptoms No One Sees but Still Steal Pieces of Me
What I’m Grateful For
When the Weight Gets Heavy
🐾 A Day in the Life of Mojo Caring for His Human
🐾 A Day in the Life of Mojo Caring for His Human
When the Holidays Don’t Look Like They Used To
The Holidays Are Here and I’m Still Wondering Why Everyone Thinks They Have Time
Today, I’m Grateful for You
When the Holidays Don’t Look Like They Used To
💔 What Chronic Pain Does to Your Identity
Today Was a “Barely Existing” Kind of Day
When It Spreads: What They Don’t Tell You About Metastasis
Feeling Like a Burden: A Patient, Not a Person
Death Has a Way of Making You Grow Up Fast
When Faith Gets Complicated: Struggling With Religion While Fighting for My Life
When Faith Gets Complicated: Struggling With Religion While Fighting for My Life
Sticks and Stones… and Broken Bones
Terminal Twenties❤️
To the Women Facing Hair Loss
Not Dying Fast Enough
Stage Four in Real Life, Not in Headlines
Before Mojo, There Was Biggie
💸 The Cost of Staying Alive
🩷 How to Argue with Insurance (Without Losing Your Mind—or Your Humanity)
The Days I’m Not Strong
🧠 The Brain Met Diaries
Health Update: Still Here, Still Messy
For Aysha — My Best Friend Who Always Shows Up
When Your Body Stops Listening: Living With Cancer Cachexia
The Kind of Sick No One Talks About
The Last Day of Pink
💊 Medication Math
Moms Sick, Mojo’s In Charge
Moms Sick, Mojo’s In Charge
Mom’s Really Sick Today, So I’m In Charge
Holding On to Me
When Cancer Moves Upstairs: Living With Brain Mets
If Cancer Could Hear Me
🩷 Why I Walk
Now Everyone Thinks I’m Fine
I Taught Everyone That I Was Fine
A Letter to Our Failure of a Medical System
🩶 Loving Someone Who’s Scared All the Time
🩶 When the News Isn’t Good
Freedom, Rewritten
Terminal Twenties
Fatigue Isn’t Just Tired
For the Ones Still in the Waiting Room
Metastatic Breast Cancer Day: The Ones Still Fighting
🐾 The Therapy Dog Who Needs Therapy
Stage Four: The Part No One Prepares You For
💞 If This Is Our Legacy
💌 To the Owners of the Best Pizza Shop in the World — My Chosen Family at Giuseppe’s
The Myth of ‘Fighting Hard Enough’
💌 We Built Something Here
🎀 Beyond the Pink: How to Truly Make a Difference This Breast Cancer Awareness Month
💕 The Whole Messy, Beautiful, Brutal Truth
Q&A With My Husband
October 1st. The beginning of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
The Questions You Should Ask Your Oncologist
The Weight No One Prepares You For
From One Dog to Another: How to Take Care of Your Human With Cancer
To the Newly Diagnosed
When Pain Has the Loudest Voice in the Room
Holding On to Me
When Cancer Moves Upstairs: Living With Brain Mets
Couch Captains
Holding It All Together When I’m Already Falling Apart
The Buffer
You Don’t Look Sick
The Ones Who Stay
Love in the Middle of the Mess
Scanxiety: Living Between Results
Finding Strength I Didn’t Know I Had
What I’d Say to the Next Young Girl Who Gets Diagnosed
Mojo and the Case of the Disappearing Energy
God and I Aren’t Talking Right Now
Dear God, Why?
The Mess No One Sees
The Mess No One Sees
Live Tweets From the Hospital… It’s Me, Mojo
“I Don’t Want to Go to Treatment Today”
When People Get Tired of You Still Being Sick
Terminal Twenties
Chemo at 27 — This Wasn’t the Plan
In His Own Words: Pete’s Q&A
My Body Is a House Falling Apart
Dad’s Biggest Competition
I Can Feel Myself Getting Weaker
The Distance Between Me and Everyone Else My Age
Top 10 Things My Mom Thinks Are About Her (But Are Actually About Me)
If My Body Could Talk
Writing Letters for a Future I Won’t Get to See
My Mom’s Sick Days: A Frenchie’s Perspective
Welcome to Mojo and the Mess
Some Days I Don’t Want to Be Brave
Before Mojo, There Was Biggie
A Letter to the People Reading This
Dear Delivery Guy: Stop Ringing the Doorbell, She’s Resting
Not Dying Fast Enough for Some People
When Chemo Breaks More Than Cancer
Captain Mojo Reporting In
How Cancer Broke My Heart… Literally
Things I Wish I Could Tell the Girl I Was Before Cancer
The Days I’m Not Really Here
Real Talk on Cancer: Izzy and Mojo’s Survival Guide
Mojo’s Thoughts While Mom’s on the Phone with Insurance
Dear You, Who Just Heard “It’s Cancer”
Dear New Reader,
To My Husband, on the Days I Can’t Say It Out Loud
The Version of Me That Exists Only in Old Photos (And Why I Still Take Pictures Anyway)
Ranking Mom’s Pills by How Dramatic She Is When She Takes Them 🐾
Even Sunshine Gets Tired
Why a Hysterectomy Isn’t the Easy Answer
The Times I Almost Gave Up
A Guide to Monitoring a Human 24/7
When It Spreads: What They Don’t Tell You About Metastasis
💌 Letter to the Girl in the Waiting Room Who Doesn’t Know Yet
💌 To the Owners of the Best Pizza Shop in the World — My Chosen Family at Giuseppe’s
🐾 A Day in the Life of Mojo: Emotional Support Loaf, Snack Security, and Full-Time Shadow
What I’d Say to the Next Young Girl Who Gets Diagnosed
Mom Doesn’t Feel Good, So I’m Taking Over This Blog
🐾 Mojo’s Live Tweets: “CEO of Emotional Support, Head of Security, Full-Time Vibe Monitor”
I Don’t Understand Cancer, But I Know What Pain Smells Like- Mojo
I Haven’t Left My Bed in Two Days
My Pain Chart Is Broken
Mom’s Sick, But I’m the One Suffering
📱 Live Tweets from Moji
This Blog Is My Legacy, Not a Pity Party
Shady “Support”
🐾 If I Had Thumbs, Things Would Be Different Around Here
The Mask, the Burn, and the Bloom
Mojo’s Official Review of This Whole Situation
🧵 Live Tweets from Mojo
The Kind of Pain That Lives in Your Bones
A Guide to Living With a Chronically Ill Human (For Dogs and Others)
✂️ Consent, but Make It Patriarchal
The Day After Chemo: Somewhere Between Surviving and Sleeping
🐾 Live Tweets from Mojo: Day After Chemo Edition 🧪💤
The Kids Who Have My Heart
Live Tweets from Mojo
Letters I’ll Never Send
What to Pack for Chemo – Mojo Edition
The Things I Don’t Say Out Loud
How to Argue With Insurance Without Losing Your Mind (or Crying)
I’m Basically a Nurse Now
Live Tweets From the Hospital… It’s Me, Mojo
“Fighting the Urge to Quit”
“I Don’t Want to Go to Treatment Today”
“When Cancer Treatment Damages the Parts of You They Don’t Warn You About”
I Know When My Human is Hurting
“How Insurance Companies Delay Life‑Saving Care (and How I’ve Had to Become My Own Advocate)”
If Cancer Was a Person, I’d Bite It
The Medical System Wasn’t Built for People Like Me
If Mojo Was in Charge of My Medical Team
If Mojo Could Talk
Steroids Are the Loudest Drug in the Room
The Cost of Waiting: When My Fertility Was Prioritized Over
Fatigue Isn’t Just Tired
What No One Tells You About the Waiting Room
Things I Wish I Knew Before Chemo
Baths Are My Safe Place(Where the water still remembers who I was — and who I’m trying to be again.)
The Meds, the Side Effects, and the Weird Sh*t No One Tells You
What Cancer Really Feels Like(Spoiler: It’s not just bald heads and inspirational quotes)
The Migraine Nobody Warned Me About
Chemo at 27 — This Wasn’t the Plan
A Day in the Life (of Chaos, Chemo, and Cuddles)
I Don’t Look Sick — But I Am
My Dog Is a Better Nurse Than Most People
Terminal Twenties
