Niki News Updates

Wow… soooo… 2020 has been a little intense, huh? While it hasn’t been ideal for tracking medical issues and staying in top shape, I must admit to being far more fortunate and unscathed than most. That said, I feel like

Yay… we’ve rolled over another new year and life has remained, for the most part, “boring”! **insert soft golf clap here** BRAIN: Basically the same old news. Brain MRI May — Stable slightly decreased size of enhancing lesion (now measuring

March 6, 2018 2018… here we are! By the end of this year, I turn 50! Aaaaaaand… we’re quickly coming up on five years since I hit the floor of the studio in full seizure. Five years since we learned of

November 10, 2017 It has been four months since I last checked in. “No news is good news”, right? Yes. Yes it is! Things on the cancer front are about as good as they’re ever going to get. Any lingering

June 21, 2017 Do you ever have those days when you look back and think “Where did the time go?”? Yeah. I feel like it’s been one of those months! I fear I’ve developed a bad case of “but first

May 9, 2017 May brings us into Melanoma Awareness month! Aaaaand… in the event that you’re new here… uncontrolled mutant “mela-meat” is what tried to kill me. Needless to say, I’ve developed a bit of an overprotective mom response to

March 17, 2017 — My orchid is sprouting again. I can’t explain this determined little plant. I have no green thumb, yet despite me, it continues to flourish. I’ve grown attached to this little potted piece of Mother Nature. Anyone

November 10, 2017 It has been four months since I last checked in. “No news is good news”, right? Yes. Yes it is! Things on the cancer front are about as good as they’re ever going to get. Any lingering

November 22, 2016 — Brain MRI: Chronic postsurgical changes of prior right…” blah blah blah… “Several foci of nonenhancing T2 FLAIR signal hyperintensity”… yeah yeah… “Volume loss within the right postcentral gyrus…” Wait. What? Volume loss? Does that mean I have

December 14, 2015 The popular line of questioning this month seems to be: “What’s next?”, “Are you cured?”, and “Sooo… when are you done?”. In the most short and sweet way that I can put this… If you are a