We Must Get Home
CherylRostekBlog2023-11-15T12:53:09-08:00Anxiety Anxiety found me yesterday, making it difficult to cook dinner, squeezing my chest and this time churning in my gut. How odd my jaw is relaxed I think. As I try to determine the
Advent Letter 2022
CherylRostekBlog2022-12-06T10:31:52-08:00Advent In the Christian tradition we have entered Advent: the anticipation of Jesus’ arrival, the anticipation of Christmas. Christmas: “the most wonderful time of the year”. My heart trills, giddy with expectation for the delight
MRI Results and Memoir Sneak Peek #2
CherylRostekBlog2021-02-01T11:28:51-08:00This excerpt from my memoir discusses the difficulties of “the wilderness”- the post-treatment zone of incurable cancer- with a glimpse of events from just last week. Note: "scanxiety" is what the cancer-world calls anxiety about
“hi, anxiety”
CherylRostekBlog2020-02-06T12:05:47-08:00I went to get a picture of my brain yesterday (how I describe it to my young kids): my MRI to see if the glioblastoma brain cancer tumor in my head is growing. Today anxiety