Imagine you will completely lose your memory of 2025 in five minutes. Set an alarm for five minutes and capture the things you most want to remember about 2025.
2024 5 minutes, 2023 5 minutes, 2022 5 minutes, 2021 5 minutes, 2020 5 minutes, 2019 5 minutes, 2018 5 minutes, 2017 5 minutes, 2016 5 minutes, 2015 5 minutes, 2014 5 minutes, 2013 5 minutes, 2012 5 minutes, 2011 5 minutes, and 2010 5 minutes
Well, what…a year. Although technically not as pummeling as last year, but maybe it was.
When I was rolled into surgery
When before surgery I was trying to insist that I would not lose memory of that moment
When I drove Chris to the ER in the middle of the night
When I sat next to him at the ER and ICU for two nights, 3 day/li>
Eating horrible hospital pureed food
Mealtrain for surgery recovery
How people sent messages of care and concern after that first cancer treatment
The pride I still had about writing the FAQ of my diagnosis and treatment
The shock and relief after learning that I didn’t need chemo at all
The surprise that I had realizing that I could just return back to normal life
But also realizing that I had to return all the awkwardness of work (but the joy of feeling valued)
Telling everyone this phrase “every September for the last three years, I was pregnant…” in response to a milestones icebreaker
Receiving the mealtrain after Chris returned from the hospital
The amazing amount of time that I spent onm my phone after the surgery during recovery
The moment that I walked as exercise after surgery but was surprised that I couldn’t walk that much
Going to AWP and seeing sooooo many friends and acquaintances who became friends
The LA trips…that somehow became more comfortable because I reconnected with a grad school friend, went to a reading club, went to a book club, feeling like I found a community of my own in a temporary home
The visit to Arizona that was so ridiculously hot but spent time with my sister and nephew
Doing the 5 minute Ignite pecha kucha talk that encompassed 5 years of life about all those horrible negative events and what it meant to me
But getting annoyed by some of the conversations afterwards
Being so surprised by friends and family’s generosity especially during mealtrain and those just showed up
