Battle Hymns of a Hot Mess Mom

One day at a time…


Memorial Day Weekend

It’s supposed to be fun. I’m struggling. It’s 4:00am and I’m looking up pain associated with AML and then it brings me end care for AML. Life expectancies after bone marrow transplant. My whole body hurts which could be cause by the cancer (too many blasts in my bone marrow – overcrowding) or effects of treatment. My feed has been full of death. This person, that person all dying from one reason to another. Pet death and the rainbow bridge. J and the children are sleeping and I am having a mild panic attack.

I don’t know if it’s this campground since this was the campground I was at where I as incredibly sick but didn’t get diagnosed with cancer at the time. I have returned here a few other times, and I always comment that it was here that I got really sick.

Last night I was painfully cold. A bitter cold where it felt like needles piercing my skin. I had six blankets on me but couldn’t get warm. I spent all day in bed while everyone went fishing. I got up for some food and turned off my phone as I was tired of hearing my glucose monitor freak out that I was “low blood sugar”. I was just tired. Trying to start off Sunday morning with more pep. Fingers crossed.



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About Me

Hello, my name is Nina. I am a mother, wife, daughter and friend. I am lover of country music, & 80’s love ballad. I love me some karaoke! I identify as hot mess mom. I get it wrong, all the time. On the rare occasions I get it right? Even I’m shocked.

I am a working professional in the field of Compliance. I am mother two, daughter to immigrant parents, wife to a “redneck” – and proud of it, sister-in-law to the two most incredible human beings I have ever met and a niece that is just so cool but doesn’t know it.

I work too hard and play too little. I’ve always focus on the wrong thing and never quite sure if I’m ever enough. I grew up on the East Coast and was a latchkey kid in the 80’s and 90’s – I dodged the sketchy people on the walk home and tried not to end up on a milk carton.

I went to a very privileged Boarding School on the East Coast and college after that. (So yeah that’s exactly why this journal will be riddled with grammatical and spelling errors. On the days I feel good, I’ll type it out. On the days I don’t feel good it’ll be voice to text. I can not be held liable for the things Siri puts in as my “voice”. ) Graduated on a Friday and started Fleet Bank on a Saturday. I hustled my way through the midnight shift at DHL and hustled and hustled and hustled. I knew nothing except the hustle. (As I said, I’m a hot mess mom).

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