.@British_Airways Flight from London to Nashville is canceled. Your email to rebook does not have any flights to rebook. Website chat says go to customer service. Customer service says to check email. There has to be a better way to take care of your customers.
An Unconventional Birth Announcement
Last week, I welcomed my first child into the world. About fifteen hours before I went into labor, I was diagnosed with breast cancer.
Now, before you worry, my doctor says it’s Stage 0 and is confident that it almost certainly hasn’t spread. Or, as I’ve explained to the few people I’ve managed to tell about it so far: Don’t freak out. It’s just, like, a LITTLE bit of cancer.
Still, it was not a chill day. I mean, to say the least! I woke up more-than-a-week-past-due pregnant, completely consumed by doing everything I could to get the baby out. By the middle of the afternoon, I was waddling around from appointment to appointment, talking about how to get my cancer out. I sat and listened as they told me that the best course of action would likely be a double mastectomy as soon as possible. I asked all the questions I could, including if I could get a copy of my tumor ultrasound to put on the fridge next to the ultrasound of my baby. Finally, by the middle of the night, I was crawling around on the floor of my apartment in spontaneous labor, before heading to the hospital to meet my baby, whom I’d learn at the time of birth was a son.
The good news? People who work at hospitals make excellent audiences for dark humor -- and, as someone whose first book was about the power of jokes to get through traumatic situations, there was really no better place for me to be. Just minutes after my boy was born, I was talking with the nurses about what a birth announcement in my situation might look like.
Should I go with “Mom and baby are doing well, except maybe for mom’s cancer, and then maybe the baby after breastfeeding is stunted by her double mastectomy,” and then shut off my phone for a week?
Anyway! These next three months of maternity leave are going to look a lot different than I’d anticipated, and I’m still getting used to my new reality. Still, as I navigate new motherhood (and new cancer) I’m learning to celebrate everything I can. I’m lucky that we found the cancer so early; I’m lucky to be my son’s mom. I mean, I know I’m biased, but the little dude absolutely rules -- and not just because he might have saved my life.
Thank you all for your support, laughter, and love as I embrace this wildly unexpected chapter. Here’s to resilience, to miracles in the midst of chaos, and to finding humor and hope even on the toughest days.
Kat
Bill Burr NAILED it about the LA fires on Jimmy Kimmel last night:
“I think they did a great job, unlike the internet.”
“Mismanaged…like some person on the internet knows how to manage the worst fire in LA, sitting there in his underwear.”
Watch this.
@JebraFaushay I have family that voted differently than I did. We sat at a table together at Thanksgiving without any issues. We have 50+ years of family history.
The speed at which these nominations have been announced suggests that perhaps there hasn't been a great deal of vetting. Or perhaps Trump's pool of options is…not deep.
@RepJasonCrow Do your homework! He served in the military before Fox News, he has degrees from Harvard and Princeton, he has a voice for the military especially veterans.
Pete Hegseth is not remotely qualified to be Secretary of Defense.
The SecDef makes life-and-death decisions daily that impact our 2 million troops around the globe.
This is not an entry-level job for a TV commentator.
The Senate should do its job and deny this nomination.
@MichaelJStern1 No, it’s she was part of the problem that got America in the mess it’s in now. She couldn’t articulate anything except she grew up middle class and was for abortion on demand, biological males were women.
watching legacy media grapple with this outcome, hoping to see them look in the mirror, & see their own culpability - the weaponizing of government, the attacks on speech and smearing of millions from their elite, arrogant perch. they aren't there yet. they're dead.
“Former president Trump tried to close on a message of fear. For her part, Vice President Kamala Harris is trying to paint Trump as a threat to the democracy, building on the comments by John Kelly. Will it resonate?” - @KWelkerNBC on resonating with persuadable voters.
@JessicaTarlov heard you on The Five today. I’m Protestant, voting for Trump. Don’t like him, he’s bombastic among other things, this country was better off when he was president. A pol party that thinks abortion on demand is okay has ❤️ issues.
@JessicaTarlov FYI just heard you on The Five, I’m a woman who is not voting for Harris. I know a lot of women who will not be voting for Harris. I disagree with most everything that’s the democratic platform. Too far left!