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SKIN COLOR EDITS BABYYYY

I’m participating in this weekend’s Pride Month edition of the Minecraft Tower Challenge! Super excited to play with everyone! :D

MAGENTA MOTHS LET’S GOOOO!!!

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Closing dance by a couple of native American Indians. #powwow #culture #nativeamerican #minneapolis #mctc (at Minneapolis Community and Technical College Library) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2muwFbhceL/?igshid=12o63ixdtrkrq

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If you're interested in spoken word, and heading to the U of MN, Hamline, Macalaster, MCTC, or another Twin Cities-area school this fall, here are some events and organizations that should be on your radar!

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I lost my dad when I was fourteen years old. He was very mentally ill and in the last six months of his life he suffered from schizophrenia. He worked as a roofer and lost his job because he was paranoid and jumped off a roof with no ladder. He was found upside down in a lake in Wisconsin. I never got to see the toxicology report. Still haven’t seen a death certificate. Family was his main thing and I was the biggest element in his life.

I enlisted in the Minnesota Army National Guard as a junior at Brainerd High School. My dad’s mom was in the military, so I figured I would keep up the tradition. Also, my mom is a veteran’s services secretary, so I grew up volunteering at the VFW and Military Order of the Purple Heart, USA. But it was mainly because I love being an American. I’m super proud to be one. 

I went to Fort Sill, Oklahoma for basic training. I was scared out of my mind. Being away from home for the first time was the hardest part. I was really out of my element. It’s humbling having everything taken away from you and looking ridiculous during drills alongside everybody else. But it made me grateful for the things I have and I met people who will always be my friends.

I left for Advanced Individual Training in Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri after I graduated high school. But I struggled with the physical parts of training and I could never figure out why. I’d always been super athletic and I knew it wasn’t lack of motivation. 

When I graduated I moved back to Brainerd, but realized it was not going to work for me. I needed to get out. I didn’t want to live in the same town my whole life. I enrolled at Minneapolis Community and Technical College for personal training and yoga instruction and moved to Minneapolis. 

Two weeks into my first semester, I went to see a doctor for birth control. I told her about some other issues I was having. I was really tired. Whenever I got a day off of work, I would sleep for eighteen hours. I felt like I had a cold I couldn’t shake; I was always blowing my nose. And I had a knot in my neck. She said, “Do you have night sweats?” I told her “yes,” and she said, “We need to get you in for a PET scan tomorrow.”

I went to my PET scan the next morning, disgruntled because it was 7am and you can’t eat anything. The doctor called me with the results the next day. I wish I could have videotaped myself the moment she told me I had lymphoma. It was crazy. I thought she was joking at first. I didn’t know anything about it, but I knew it was cancer.

I was scheduled for a fine point needle biopsy and a bone marrow biopsy. The biopsy from my bone marrow showed I had cancer cells there. I was diagnosed with Stage 4B Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, which is the most advanced. I was like, “No. That can’t happen to me. I’m 19, this is stuff that happens to older people…”

Sheyla (part 1 of 2)

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anyway i made a pretty sweet colored pencil box

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Feliz día internacional de la #mujer en charla con #Mashav #MCTC #Israel (en Campus TEC Guatemala) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpixAB2PSFr/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Beginning Again

Happy Thanksgiving, and glad to have the blog up and running again.

The person who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.— Chinese Proverb Creativity at Work October 11, 2022, 7:57 pm, Digitally Enhanced Photo, Hendricks ©2022 Yes, I am beginning again. Roughly a year and a half ago, my blog of 12 years was shut down by Blue Host because it was infected with malware. I mourned. It had over two thousand images taken or created by me. Hundreds…

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香港消防處 流動傷者治療車 (2003) #HongKongFireServicesDepartment #HKFSD #mctc #mobileCasualtyTreatmentCentre #F82 #DennisRS https://www.instagram.com/p/CiMQVKdBrP4/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=