Bye 2025
Honestly, 2025 has been a doozy and I’ll be glad to have it in the rearview. My year was personally very eventful, and that’s excluding everything that happened in the world. I’m still processing a lot of it, but here’s a summary in roughly chronological order, using Roman numerals for added drama: I. Cancer scare #1 (fake) In early Feb I had my first screening mammogram ever, in accordance with the guidelines of most major authoritative health organizations which recommend starting screening at age 40 in people with average risk for breast cancer. In my head I was thinking of it as a box to check, a way to briefly remind myself that I was still in middle age but you know, I still got it 💃🏻, and that I was a good, compliant patient with all screenings up to date. I was most apprehensive about my boobs being squished, and even that was maybe a 3/10 on the anxiety scale. ...