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13 Year Update – NLPHL Hodgkin’s Lymphoma – Stage 2

This may be the shortest blog post I have evert written, but here’s an interview I did with Chris Wark at Chris Beat Cancer about three years ago. I was actually pregnant with our youngest daughter (and 6th baby) at the time of the interview and had TERRIBLE morning sickness. 😂 Life is so busy, I ignored my blog here! Oh, and despite what the title says, I was actually almost at my 13th year of remission when this was filmed. ♥ As I’m typing this, it has been 16 years.

As most of you know, I am busiest on social media, especially Instagram and Facebook, so you can chat with me there!

-Cortney

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Are You a Coronavirus “Unknown?” Antibody Testing + How I Recovered

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Early last month (March, 2020) I found myself lying awake, miserably coughing without any relief for hours. Dry, DRY constant coughing for days. The second night of this was when the googling started. “How do I get tested for coronavirus?”

“Coronavirus drive-throughs Atlanta”

“Coronavirus testing Georgia”

“Where can I get tested for coronavirus?”

Do you know what results I got? Nothing helpful. Nothing telling me where to go or what to do. Just a bunch of articles telling me that if I’m sick to “see your doctor” and that testing is being mostly reserved for people who are severely sick and in hospitals (they did not add “and celebrities and politicians” but I knew that was a criterion as well.) 😉

Being someone who hasn’t been to a doctor for acute illness in over 12 years, I didn’t plan on going in unless I was absolutely getting worse. The mainstream media pretty much hammered in that there was nothing that could be done about COVID-19 anyways since they were reserving testing for the sickest of the sick. (Thankfully now – over 5 weeks later, testing is much more available!)

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My Honest Review of Misfits Market Subscription Boxes

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This past month I have received my first two subscription boxes of organic produce from Misfits Market. Their business model is noteworthy and unique and I couldn’t help but try at least ONE order to see what the experience would be like.

(UPDATE: We have now used Misfits Market for 7 months and it has only gotten better. Keep reading for reasons why I we are still ordering!)

If you haven’t heard of Misfits Market, I’ll give you a quick run down.  🍎 🍐 🍊 🍋 🍌 🍉 🍇 🍓

  • Misfits Market takes organic produce that is grown on an organic, many times local farm that is *unmarketable* to a retail grocery store and sells it at (up to) a 40% discount to its subscribers via mail.
  • “Unmarketable” could mean that it’s oddly shaped, bruised from a fall from a tree, twisted in a funny shape, etc. It could also mean that they just produced too much of it and it would go to waste if it weren’t for a middle-man company like Misfits Market.

I found it crazy to find out that BILLIONS of pounds of produce go to waste because of the issue of produce vanity. 😂

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Making a Decision About Vaccines: MMR

In November, 1983 I received my one life time dose of the MMR vaccine when I was 15 months old. No one seems to be concerned that to today’s standards I am under-vaccinated. And if you were born before the 1990’s, you probably are too. 😉

TWO MMR vaccines for children are now recommended; one at 12 months and the next at 4 years of age. Not to mention that the MMR vaccine has only been evaluated for effectiveness up to 20 years post-injection.

This is the research we sifted through when we were making a decision about the MMR vaccine for our children and weighing the risks vs. benefits.