Melanoma – The Tennessee Honeybee

The Unexpected

Last Thursday night, after we had laid down to bed and K was already asleep, our fire alarm went off. I was watching Golden Girls

Today is one year since my sister’s memorial service, though as a family we didn’t say our final goodbye until more than a week later.

Today at 11pm cst, it will be a year since my heart broke permanently. Even now, I am crying writing these words because I still

It’s been a month. At 11 o’clock tonight, it has been a full lunar cycle since my sister breathed her last breath and left this

One of the things I inherited from my sister was several pairs of her shoes. This wasn’t particularly intentional, my momma just started asking me,

It’s another “night shift” in which there is no one to watch over. It’s been almost two weeks and it all still feels unreal. Expected,

It’s been a week (and 30 minutes) since my sister left this world. It’s surreal still…a week ago I was in her bed next to

I stood hunched over in the shower and watched the water swirling towards the drain but it shaped an undulating heart and I thought, “This

Only minutes after my last post my aunt raced into the hallway and said, “Christina, she’s not breathing!” I raced to her room and checked

We have entered another night. She is still with us… with me. Her breathing is shallow, at 5-6 breaths per minute, but she is peaceful