Breast Case Scenario

Welcome, friends. Breast Case Scenario is an online storytelling adventure, meant to share some of the most raw and meaningful experiences of my journey with breast cancer as a 31-year-old working toddler mom.

  • Built For Cancer – How Life Throws Punches, and I Punch Back

    Disclaimer: Everyone feels pain. Everyone experiences challenges. Everyone faces roadblocks. The events in one person’s life do not invalidate or diminish someone else’s. Hard is hard. That being said… I’m tired of making my way through journeys no one else around me has lived through. When I was 10, I hugged my dad before dawn…

  • Reflections on Heaviness and Hope – Six Months of Breast Cancer Edition

    Sometimes I forget I’m fighting for my life. I’ve heard things in the last six months like: “The good cancer.” “They’re just boobs.” “This is curable, you’ll be just fine.” And I believe them. Which makes this even more of a confusing place to be. Stuck between “Holy shit, I have cancer, what’s going to…

  • My Version of the “Greatest Sports Story Ever Told”

    I wasn’t born a Hoosier. I wasn’t even raised a Hoosier, but slowly, over the years, and culminating one March evening in my grandparent’s basement, I realized exactly what it meant to be a Hoosier. Indiana University, class of 1957. Marilyn DuValle, Jeffersonville, Indiana. The best woman I have ever known. As a proud Hoosier,…