There was a time when I felt a little lost. Not in a way that anyone else would have noticed… but quietly, inside. I would ask myself questions like: Am I a cancer survivor? Am I someone defined by a BRCA2 mutation—by the choices I made to protect my future? Am I a Type 1 diabetic… even though my path to it looks different than most? And the more I thought about it, the more I realized… I didn’t quite fit into any one category. And for a while, that made me feel like I didn’t

Living Without a Pancreas, Trusting Your Gut, and Learning from Sourdough One of the biggest lessons I’ve learned in this wild, beautiful life-after-pancreas is that our bodies are always working for us — even when the rulebook gets rewritten. And trust me, mine has been rewritten from cover to cover. When you live without a pancreas, your entire inner world shifts — your hormones, your digestion, the way your hunger feels, the way your blood sugar behaves. And yet somehow, y