One of Jeremy’s cousins, who has lived various places internationally due to her husband's job for the better part of the last decade, had a blog for many years. I never really yearned to have my own platform to share my story, but I can tell you one thing, I always thought if I ever did I hoped it would be as eloquent and beautiful as hers.

Starting this was hard for me. This isn’t my strong suit. I have even taken a bunch of silly photos at various appointments in case I wanted to include them in “my story”. Even though this isn’t my natural platform, so many of our loved ones are not near, and with the pandemic even many that are near are not active parts in our daily life so I decided this was a good idea. A dear friend set up a caring bridge site/blog for me quickly after my diagnosis. A perfect platform to get on and share with friends and family.

I just couldn’t do it. It felt sad. I deeply hated the ads and requests for donations all over the place, and as a graphic designer it just did not feel like me AT ALL.

I have never been very good at accepting major help - sure the carpool request or borrowing an onion is fine, but that’s about it. Well everyone has been telling me I need to get used to the help for a bit. So when one of my dear friends asked what she could do it all clicked. She is an amazingly talented designer and website wiz. We could just use my personal site that normally holds my portfolio work and make it my blog. This is all work I could do myself, however my biggest obstacle is time. We are not done fine-tuning the header and will likely make some additional tweaks, but my heartfelt thanks to her for making it happen - fast.