Kimberly Archive

Earlier this week, I completed my tenth round of chemotherapy for breast cancer. It’s been a long, exhausting road to get to this point, and to say that I am looking forward to finishing up this part of my treatment would be a gross ...Read More

One of the least enjoyable parts of getting diagnosed with breast cancer has been explaining what’s going on to my kids. This week marked my eighth round of chemotherapy, or as I explained it to my son and daughter, “the medicine Mommy has to ...Read More

Let’s talk about hair. Many people who go through chemotherapy treatment lose their hair. I don’t have an exact number for “many” (I Googled it but couldn’t find any statistics for you); I’m basing my “many” on the fact that almost everyone I’ve known ...Read More

In The Neapolitan Novels, a wildly popular series of books about two friends growing up in Naples, Italy, one of the main characters uses the term “dissolving boundaries” to describe moments in her life when her connection to reality loosens, leaving her unmoored, lost, scared. ...Read More