My BadASS Life

This post was originally meant to be a musical tribute to love. Simple, right? Wrong...in the course of creating the music video, I realized that while no one can take our love away, our government and the Christian Nationalists running it, are trying (and succeeding) in rolling back all of the rights we fought so hard to gain in the last 25 years since we've been together. One of those rights is the right to marry the person we love.

This may be one of the most important articles you read today! There is a NEW (non-invasive) TEST for Colorectal Cancer (CRC) with 83% accuracy. (Colonoscopy is still the gold standard.)

I never started out my journey as a cancer survivor intending to become an advocate OR the poster child for healthcare insurance!

Why do people care so much about healthcare coverage, cancer funding & research? Do you want to know why people are stressed out and afraid?

As a cancer survivor of one of the most prevalent and deadly yet most underfunded cancers, and an LGBTQ person, I'm asking you to VOTE!

Marking my 2-year Cancerversary with Gratitude and EXHAUSTION, so I turned to the data to find out why?

Radiation ended up being one of the toughest parts of my journey. That said, one more reminder that my body is not yours...

The following is the breakdown of my comprehensive treatment plan, in case you are comparing or investigating your treatment options.

How having Rectal Cancer is a Little Like Being Gay!

My badass friends have been in Washington D.C. sharing our stories and asking for more funding for CRC research and screenings!

By the end of November, we knew that I had a large mass, an invasive colonic adenocarcinoma, moderately differentiated, on my lower colon.

Over the next few posts, I’m going share my cancer story in detail and I’d like to encourage you to share your stories as well!