by Ivy Hughes | Jun 19, 2019 | Life after breast cancer, Life after cancer, Relationships after cancer, Surviving cancer, Survivorship
I discredit pretty much every piece of advice that my parents give me. I discredit dad because his way of getting to Texas from Colorado is via Zanzibar. I discredit mom because she has feelings, many of them. After proving quite heartedly that my decision making...
by Ivy Hughes | Jun 19, 2019 | Life after breast cancer, Life after cancer, Raising kids, Raising kids after cancer, Raising twins, Surviving cancer, Survivorship
My twin two year olds are teaching me a hell of a lot about how I speak, specifically how I use curse words. This started last weekend the YMCA of the Rockies’ pool. As I was pulling into the parking lot, I said, “Oh damn” about something—who knows—and the backseat...
by Ivy Hughes | Jun 1, 2019 | Life after breast cancer, Life after cancer, Raising kids, Raising kids after cancer, Surviving cancer, Survivorship
In February 2019, I wrote an email to my lawyer saying that I wanted to give up all rights to my children. I felt like I was being pushed out of their lives emotionally, I felt incapable of being anything they would ever look up to, I was heartbroken every two weeks...
by Ivy Hughes | May 29, 2019 | Life after breast cancer, Life after cancer, Travel
Just after sundown the first night of safari in Kenya’s Naboisho Conservancy near the Masai Mara, six lionesses corner a group of water buffalo. The water buffalo moo and clumsily stumble around the boulders that separate them from the lions. Myself, a Dutch couple...
by Ivy Hughes | May 12, 2019 | Life after breast cancer, Raising kids, Relationships after cancer, Surviving cancer, Survivorship, Women
I view my mother as this superpower whose energy and love sort of hold my life together. No matter where I’ve traveled or lived or what kinds of crazy assed schemes I’ve come up with, my mother’s love has been my container. She contains so that I can live, so that I...
