Episodes

We’re talking chemo with resident expert and very special guest Lily Jockers! What is chemo, why is chemo and how come we can’t just talk our way out of getting it.

Special guest Alana and Joselyn go off on a tangent about preoccupation with death, the everlasting nature of a breast cancer diagnosis and the shattered dreams of writing the next great American novel.

The Chernobyl stage of breast cancer: Radiation. Wet the towels, break out the Lanolin and buy those t-shirts in bulk; it’s gonna be a ride but it all ends in confetti.

Chemo may take our hair, but it will never take our vanity. Hold on to your brows as we explore being bald and nippleless amid cultural expectations of femininity.

Turn the waterworks up to 11, because big C is the traumatic gift that keeps on giving; come along and have an out-of-body experience over a scab. It’ll be fun!

Food, glorious food! Oh, powdered potatoes and applesauce.

Sometimes good stuff gets edited out of our episodes for the sake of time. In this first installment of mini episodes we’re calling BCI B Sides, Joselyn and Lauren discuss the Port, what it is, what it does, how it should be “accessed” (medical term for shoving a needle in you). Enjoy.

Oh the shits you will shit. Managing chemo symptoms from (yes) shit to folliculitis to fatigue.

People are wonderful and kind and there to offer help and support. People are disappointing and shitty and completely useless and they don’t understand and you’r all alone here.

We’re gonna need a bigger tote bag; from heating pads to industrial strength concealer, some things you may need to make it through chemo.

What, exactly, did I do to deserve this? A journey to the center of self-pity.

Got plans? Not any more. Cancer is your plans now.

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