Rubey Rambles

Hello Friends! I thought I would take this lovely Monday to turn up Sam Smith's "I Feel Love" and send out a quick update! I had surgery about 10 days ago and everything went great! I am home recovering now and enjoying all this extra time healing and getting stronger with my family by my side. I had my follow up with my amazing surgeon Dr. Carrie Carsello. She is THE BEST. She has made my entire treatment process amazing. Everyone at the Hospital of Central CT made sure I was well taken care of and I had an amazing view of Walnut Hill Park!  The love I have received from far and wide has meant so much to me. From the cards, texts, amazing gift baskets and yummy food. I am so loved. It makes having cancer seem like a walk in the park, LOL.  But the best thing to happen to me since my last blog update is...I GOT MARRIED!! I am so lucky to have Christina beside my in this fight because she is the best nurse, plant-mom, Rocket momma and everything in between. I am pretty sur...

Hi everyone! The outpouring of love and support since reopening my blog and leaving the "open for biz" sign outside has been incredible! I am so blessed to have a support system far and wide that will help be beat cancer! Christina has been the best fiance (soon to be wife!), dog mom, cancer care giver and plant mama that I could ever ask for. We used quarantine as a time to redo things around the house, adopt way too many plants and master the game of Connect 4. There is no one else I would rather be bored in the house with than her.  Ok now to the important stuff... I will be having surgery next week to remove the mass, my thyroid and some nodules just below my thyroid. The surgery will keep me in the hospital overnight but I will be home ASAP to lay on the couch and recover! My official "Bad Ass ESPN Thyroid Cancer Survivor" pal Ashley sent me the link to the best recovery pillow so I cannot wait for that!  Keep me in your thoughts, prayers, pray ...

Hello world... Tis' me. I haven't used this space in quite some time but I think the timing right now is perfect. I am going to be updating this blog space, use it as a place to share my ideas, short stories, maybe debut fun content I am working on (ie: DINOLANNA!) and just create a space... If you made it this far, maybe you wonder what I mean by...create a space... The last five months have been nothing short of a world wind adventure. These adventures will be shared through short stories here on Rubey Rambles . I am hoping to create a space of sharing, love, positive things and just 'Elanna' things. Now...why am I doing this? Well friends, last week I found I have cancer. LIKE WOAH? WHAT?! I know...wtf? "You take such good care of yourself!...you run all the time!!! etc etc" oh I know...I am just as baffled but I am going to take that baffle, turn it into rambles and thus...Rubey Rambles. All joking aside...I have Stage 1 Thyroid Cancer. It all...

Where I am typing this blog was already a semi-finished blog post that I was going to post on Fathers Day, but I decided to clear the slate and start fresh, with freshly healed emotions but still the raw power to explain my thoughts. Today is the one year anniversary of my biological fathers death. The emotions I have struggled with over the last year have brought me to some of the darkest corners of my emotions. I felt there was a time I might never get out, but I am here today, feeling brighter but the last few days have held darkness. How do you say goodbye to someone who you never had closure from? Feeling sadness about a year without a father who I had not spoken to in almost 9 years seems like an oxymoron. Our relationship was strained but he was 50% of the combination that makes up me, so the benefit of the doubt should be given. The sinking feeling of sadness overwhelms me when I think about my biological father. Sadness that he created a life and seemed to forget about m...

Hello...it's me... *sung to Adele* It's been a while, actually well over a year, but I am going to try and get better about blogging again and I think I have something pretty damn cool to blog about this week. Over the weekend I made the pilgrimage to homecoming weekend at my Alma Mater, Coastal Carolina University... C-I...N-O!!! COASTAL IS NUMBER ONE! Aside from eating my way through all the great food Myrtle has to offer, I completed a goal I set for myself in the summer of 2009. I am not sure how many people know, but in the summer of 2009, I was heading into my junior year of college and just really feeling unfit. I had no real idea how to get in shape, but a summer of activities with my friend Rachel lead me down a path of life I never expected. Summer of activities 2009 One random afternoon Rachel and I headed out for a run. Up until that point, I don't think I had run a full mile in my life. I ended up running 2 miles, I only know that because ...

Sunday, despite my father's protest, I ran in the Amica Iron Horse Half Marathon in my hometown/still-always-at-my-parents-house in Simsbury.  I ran this exact race last year as my first ever half marathon.  I couldn't wait to get back out there again this year for my second half. I have been training for this race for the last few months.  Truth be told, after last years race, I never stopped running long distances, which really made training for this time around much more fun and I had some of the best runs I have ever had in my life. I could not wait to get out on the course at Iron Horse and really see what I had in me... Well...what I had in me...pneumonia. The true heartache I felt this past week after my doctor told me that I had pneumonia was devastating. My doctor seemed uneasy that I was taking the "half-glass full" approach when I told her on Friday that I had a half marathon planned for Sunday and "it's 48 hours away, that is a lo...