That Time Everyone Missed My Cancer

Carie Lyn
10 min readSep 29, 2019
“woman with sugar skull makeup” by Tony Hernandez on Unsplash

My favorite Halloween decoration is a tombstone that we made for the yard that read, I Told You I was Sick. Don’t get me wrong — I love the Here Lies Mozart, Decomposing, and the I Made an Ash of Myself epitaphs, just not as much as I Told You I Was Sick. It smacks of indignation and insidiousness and spite. It tells a story.

It tells my story.

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Carie Lyn

Amateur psychologist and large talking outgoing introvert who takes her coffee like her men: strong, sweet, and creamy