by Kaitlyn Bouchillon | Jul 31, 2020 | (in)courage, Devotional, Even If Not, Faith, Faithful, My Health Story
My hands hover over the keyboard. I don’t want to write this post. I don’t really want to write any post at all, actually, even though my mind is constantly writing sentences and storylines throughout the day. Part of me wants to blame it on the pandemic, and while...
by Kaitlyn Bouchillon | Aug 3, 2019 | (in)courage, Devotional, Faith, My Health Story
Nine years ago, at the age of seventeen, I had brain surgery to remove a tumor the size of a golf ball. For months, sickness snuck up on me in the early morning hours and hung on until night fell and sleep took over. No matter who we spoke with or what we tried, there...
by Kaitlyn Bouchillon | Dec 7, 2016 | Brave, Broken and Raw, Even If Not, Faith, My Health Story
“I wonder if she’ll notice…” There’s a long scar straight down the back of my head, reaching up from the base of my neck. Last week I sat in a black swivel chair, my face reflecting back to me in the mirror as a kind and friendly stranger...
by Kaitlyn Bouchillon | Jul 6, 2016 | Broken and Raw, Faith, My Health Story
It’s 10:46pm on July 5, 2016 and I’m crying at a blank page. There is so much to say and somehow it feels like I’ve written every single line before. It also feels brand new. There’s nothing new to say under the sun and we’ve gone around...
by Kaitlyn Bouchillon | Jun 30, 2016 | Faith, My Health Story
Everything changed six years ago. After months of praying for answers, we got them. Five months of sickness, questions, doubts and frustrations came together mid-morning on the last day of June. The nurse led us from the waiting room to the one room I had seen but...
by Kaitlyn Bouchillon | Feb 18, 2016 | Books, Even If Not, My Health Story
This post is an excerpt from Even If Not: Living, Loving, and Learning in the in Between. I never would have written a brain tumor into my story but I would never wish to write it out. It was a part of me and now it is a part of my story, one I never expected...