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Continue reading →: Melanoma Update: One Appointment at a Time
We headed back to Philadelphia for more follow-up appointments, hoping for a little more clarity. Instead, we left with more information, more options to consider…and a few more decisions to make. We met with the surgeon first, and the news was encouraging. Kobe’s head is healing really well. The surgeon…
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Continue reading →: Melanoma Update: The Pathology We Were Waiting For
It’s funny how life works sometimes. I started writing this update weeks ago, but never finished it. Looking back, that seems fitting. Life wasn’t slowing down long enough to let me sit and process everything that was happening. After surgery, we finally got the pathology results. The good news was…
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Continue reading →: Melanoma Update: After SurgerySurgery was two days ago, and we are currently sitting in the hospital waiting to see if the drainage from Kobe’s neck decreases enough for us to go home. We’re really hoping to avoid going home with the drainage tube since we’re 3½ to 4 hours away, depending on what…
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Continue reading →: Well… We Survived Our First Food Trailer Event 🚚🍕
The food trailer season has officially started… and not without chaos. Our first event was an elementary school showcase. The weather wasn’t exactly ideal, and there were four other food trailers there for one small elementary school. So naturally my thinking was: “Small event… what better way to work out…
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Continue reading →: Melanoma Update: One Step at a Time ✨
It’s hard to believe it’s been over a month since I last updated the blog. In some ways it feels like forever… and in other ways it feels like everything happened in the blink of an eye. Since the last update, a lot has happened. Kobe has officially started treatment…
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Continue reading →: Melanoma Update:
Today was a long day of doctor appointments and scans, but we just keep moving forward one step at a time. We should have results from the scans in the next couple of days. As of now, the plan is to start immunotherapy before surgery to remove the melanoma lesion.…
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Continue reading →: ✨ A Post I Didn’t Plan on Writing… But Here We Are
A post I didn’t think I would be making. I guess life throws all kinds of curveballs around 50… but a melanoma diagnosis for my son, Kobe, was not the kind of curveball any of us were expecting. Let me back up to a little over a week ago. It…
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Continue reading →: ✨ Life Lately: A Little Busy Behind the ScenesIf you’ve noticed things have been a little quiet around here lately… there’s a reason. Life has been moving at full speed. And if you live in Pennsylvania, you know that when winter drags on for approximately seven years, motivation sometimes slows down just a little too. Between remodeling projects,…
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Continue reading →: 🧰 🧹Food Trailer Tools I Didn’t Know I Needed (But Now Can’t Live Without)When I started my food trailer business, I thought I only needed the big equipment to make drinks and pizza. Turns out, it’s the small tools that keep everything running smoothly. Food trailer life is held together by a lot of random, overlooked items that never show up on official…
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Continue reading →: 👖A Little Side Hustle Called Apparel 212Somewhere between teaching, family life, sourdough experiments, and questioning my life choices at 2 a.m., Apparel 212 was born. It started with a simple goal: clothes that are cute and livable. Not “stand still and don’t sit down” cute. Not “why does this cost as much as groceries” cute. Just…
Halfway there and just getting started.
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I’m Stacy…
Navigating the middle with caffeine, courage, and a whole lot of “let’s just try it and see.” I built an online boutique (Apparel 212), and now I’m pivoting into food-trailer chaos while paying down debt and figuring out midlife hormones. This is the honest, messy side of reinventing life in my late-40s/50ish years — where the middle isn’t the end… it’s just where the story gets good.
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