Jessica Oldwyn

There's something about the middle of the night, that awakens my soul. It happens every night, almost always around 1:27 am, when I ar...

I have something that will help the cancer patient in your life, something that has been helping me for years . Why didn't I think of s...

Dang it if brain tumor life isn't confusing. At least in my world! I can't be the only one who has these types of yoyo results. I ...

I have been dragging my feet a little bit on posting Episode 2 of Cancer Convos with Crush & Coconuts, for two reasons: 1. We recor...

Morning Friends! Dan and I have our triathlon this weekend. Remember that? Yikes. Have we been training? No, not really. We've ridden ...

Damn it. I had a little seizure episode last night. It wasn't a big, aggressive, episode, but still very annoying, and frightful, and fr...

Ugh, the dread in my body in having/needing to write this post has been weighing on me for quite some time. Like months. How embarrassing! W...

I never thought I'd feel this way. I never thought that I would use these words, and for good reason. Doctors don't use the term ...

My lovely, timid, garden finally produced her first cucumber! (I'm pretty sure it's my fault for under-watering.) There is nothin...

Oh I have been laughing at myself. Me and my big book. Me talking about my fancy new brain. The second I started typing about my progress, D...

Yesterday, I turned a year older. And, it has officially been 4 years, 3 months, and 25 days since I was diagnosed. I have had three brain s...

Recently, I was invited to join a group of bloggers as an ongoing roundtable for brain tumor patient issues. When the email popped into my ...

Since I shared out loud, opening myself up to friends and strangers about my diagnosis, I have been inundated with suggestions about adding ...

Holy. Cow. I have borderline orthorexia.  It's an actual thing .  I was watching the news this morning and a story came on about a girl ...

Oh fudgeknuckles. I did it again. The thing is, you'd think I'd remember that I have stress-induced seizures, and here I was doing a...

You know what's crazy? You get diagnosed, you go through surgery, you recover, then the real test comes in living your life knowing that...

I've been swimming in the interweb waves all day. I'm gathering, learning, relearning, trying to absorb, planning. Things I know: ...