Sylvia Avalos
@sylvia-avalos.bsky.social
Stage 4 breast cancer warrior living that soft life crocheting, reading, playing with our pups, and in the kitchen.
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Look at those paws! 😍
December 19, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Look at those paws! 😍
I just finished God of the Woods and it just wasn't my cup of tea. I know I'm in the minority about it but eh.
December 9, 2025 at 2:44 AM
I just finished God of the Woods and it just wasn't my cup of tea. I know I'm in the minority about it but eh.
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Today's #goodnews story is about Northwest Battle Buddies started in Vancouver WA. They pair veterans with trained service dogs to prevent suicides.
The dogs have 5 months of training before getting paired with their veteran. Then it's 5 weeks of on-the-job training before graduation. 🥰
The dogs have 5 months of training before getting paired with their veteran. Then it's 5 weeks of on-the-job training before graduation. 🥰
Nonprofit using service dogs to curb veteran suicides celebrates 300th pairing
The dogs train for the specific needs of the person they’re working with, but are all taught to disrupt panic attacks and help veterans feel safer in stressful situations.
www.opb.org
December 4, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Today's #goodnews story is about Northwest Battle Buddies started in Vancouver WA. They pair veterans with trained service dogs to prevent suicides.
The dogs have 5 months of training before getting paired with their veteran. Then it's 5 weeks of on-the-job training before graduation. 🥰
The dogs have 5 months of training before getting paired with their veteran. Then it's 5 weeks of on-the-job training before graduation. 🥰
In talking to my sister, I just realized I'm doing this cancer thing all wrong. I'm off coffee. I'm off edibles and weed. And I'm sober.
All I have is cheese, chocolate, and bread but my ass is lactose intolerant and gluten sensitive.
All I have is cheese, chocolate, and bread but my ass is lactose intolerant and gluten sensitive.
October 16, 2025 at 9:54 PM
In talking to my sister, I just realized I'm doing this cancer thing all wrong. I'm off coffee. I'm off edibles and weed. And I'm sober.
All I have is cheese, chocolate, and bread but my ass is lactose intolerant and gluten sensitive.
All I have is cheese, chocolate, and bread but my ass is lactose intolerant and gluten sensitive.
It's 2am where I am at and I just saw my MRI scan report and I want to run around the neighborhood screaming in delight.
My brain tumor has shrunk by 30% after 4 rounds of chemo.
Idk if that's fast or slow. Its progress!
So this is me, screaming around the neighborhood!
My brain tumor has shrunk by 30% after 4 rounds of chemo.
Idk if that's fast or slow. Its progress!
So this is me, screaming around the neighborhood!
September 19, 2025 at 8:48 AM
It's 2am where I am at and I just saw my MRI scan report and I want to run around the neighborhood screaming in delight.
My brain tumor has shrunk by 30% after 4 rounds of chemo.
Idk if that's fast or slow. Its progress!
So this is me, screaming around the neighborhood!
My brain tumor has shrunk by 30% after 4 rounds of chemo.
Idk if that's fast or slow. Its progress!
So this is me, screaming around the neighborhood!
Appa from the Air Nation
September 17, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Appa from the Air Nation
I have hada diminished reading attention span and have only listened to about 9 hours into a 24-hour book, which is about to be returned to Libby. And, there's a wait! So this month may be the first month in almost 4 years where I dont finish one book.
September 14, 2025 at 11:01 PM
I have hada diminished reading attention span and have only listened to about 9 hours into a 24-hour book, which is about to be returned to Libby. And, there's a wait! So this month may be the first month in almost 4 years where I dont finish one book.
Thoroughly enjoyed listening to this on audiobook. So much, I grew concerned to my sense of normalization for violence.
A slow burn of a romance.
Trigger warnings: violence, cannibalism, explicit sexual encounters, child abuse
A slow burn of a romance.
Trigger warnings: violence, cannibalism, explicit sexual encounters, child abuse
September 7, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Thoroughly enjoyed listening to this on audiobook. So much, I grew concerned to my sense of normalization for violence.
A slow burn of a romance.
Trigger warnings: violence, cannibalism, explicit sexual encounters, child abuse
A slow burn of a romance.
Trigger warnings: violence, cannibalism, explicit sexual encounters, child abuse
Growing up in a heavy militarized state. Hmmm...
A must read.
A must listen.
A must read.
A must listen.
September 3, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Growing up in a heavy militarized state. Hmmm...
A must read.
A must listen.
A must read.
A must listen.
This is it I'm starting The Burning God, I'm ready to be destroyed.
September 2, 2025 at 8:21 PM
This is it I'm starting The Burning God, I'm ready to be destroyed.
Uhm, mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell. If there were challenges of the mitochondria kind, cells wouldn't function ... like there wouldn't be brain function or movement. It wouldn't be inflammation and everybody would notice if you just stopped being able to move your right arm.
August 29, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Uhm, mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell. If there were challenges of the mitochondria kind, cells wouldn't function ... like there wouldn't be brain function or movement. It wouldn't be inflammation and everybody would notice if you just stopped being able to move your right arm.
I feel like if the author can elicit strong feelings from me, they've done a good job. And, goodness, do I have strong opinions about some of these characters. Their actions gave me a headache and made my blood pressure rise!
A solid read!
A solid read!
August 18, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I feel like if the author can elicit strong feelings from me, they've done a good job. And, goodness, do I have strong opinions about some of these characters. Their actions gave me a headache and made my blood pressure rise!
A solid read!
A solid read!
Want to meet a most powerful main character in a YA novel?
Find yourself. Find your family. Fight the patriarchy.
Highly recommend the audiobook.
Trigger warning: death, torture
Find yourself. Find your family. Fight the patriarchy.
Highly recommend the audiobook.
Trigger warning: death, torture
August 15, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Want to meet a most powerful main character in a YA novel?
Find yourself. Find your family. Fight the patriarchy.
Highly recommend the audiobook.
Trigger warning: death, torture
Find yourself. Find your family. Fight the patriarchy.
Highly recommend the audiobook.
Trigger warning: death, torture
I still read every day but my attention span is lower and I'm reading a physical book which is taking longer.
Nonetheless, it was a month of extraordinary reads. Highly recommend all of them!
Nonetheless, it was a month of extraordinary reads. Highly recommend all of them!
August 2, 2025 at 11:54 PM
I still read every day but my attention span is lower and I'm reading a physical book which is taking longer.
Nonetheless, it was a month of extraordinary reads. Highly recommend all of them!
Nonetheless, it was a month of extraordinary reads. Highly recommend all of them!
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the US profoundly needs a children's rights movement. children are not property... they deserve opportunity and learning and autonomy and security.... and our country just does not acknowledge this
July 29, 2025 at 11:59 PM
the US profoundly needs a children's rights movement. children are not property... they deserve opportunity and learning and autonomy and security.... and our country just does not acknowledge this
This book! OMG. Devastating.
The walking dead.
The horrors persist, but so do they.
Goodness, is it bleak.
I don't even think I can continue with the next book, I need a moment. It's raw. It's scary in how realistic it can all get.
It's fiction, right? Not prophecy.
The walking dead.
The horrors persist, but so do they.
Goodness, is it bleak.
I don't even think I can continue with the next book, I need a moment. It's raw. It's scary in how realistic it can all get.
It's fiction, right? Not prophecy.
July 27, 2025 at 2:13 PM
This book! OMG. Devastating.
The walking dead.
The horrors persist, but so do they.
Goodness, is it bleak.
I don't even think I can continue with the next book, I need a moment. It's raw. It's scary in how realistic it can all get.
It's fiction, right? Not prophecy.
The walking dead.
The horrors persist, but so do they.
Goodness, is it bleak.
I don't even think I can continue with the next book, I need a moment. It's raw. It's scary in how realistic it can all get.
It's fiction, right? Not prophecy.
Medicaid info and ICE, what's the connection?
Take a mixed citizenship status family.
The kids qualify for medicaid but the parents don't due to lack of documents, you now have identified where they live. So you look for families where only the kids are covered.
Take a mixed citizenship status family.
The kids qualify for medicaid but the parents don't due to lack of documents, you now have identified where they live. So you look for families where only the kids are covered.
July 18, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Medicaid info and ICE, what's the connection?
Take a mixed citizenship status family.
The kids qualify for medicaid but the parents don't due to lack of documents, you now have identified where they live. So you look for families where only the kids are covered.
Take a mixed citizenship status family.
The kids qualify for medicaid but the parents don't due to lack of documents, you now have identified where they live. So you look for families where only the kids are covered.
So June/July is S'mores season and I'm already seeing Pumpkin Spice hitting the stores. That is September/October flavors.
What happened to August? What are August's flavors?
What happened to August? What are August's flavors?
July 18, 2025 at 4:46 PM
So June/July is S'mores season and I'm already seeing Pumpkin Spice hitting the stores. That is September/October flavors.
What happened to August? What are August's flavors?
What happened to August? What are August's flavors?
When your brain tumor's audible hallucinations radio station switches to white noise
Uhm, not helping me get to sleep! Let's get that easy listening back on
Uhm, not helping me get to sleep! Let's get that easy listening back on
July 18, 2025 at 10:56 AM
When your brain tumor's audible hallucinations radio station switches to white noise
Uhm, not helping me get to sleep! Let's get that easy listening back on
Uhm, not helping me get to sleep! Let's get that easy listening back on
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Telling women to modify their behavior to avoid being victims of violent crime ignores the actual issue of predators being predatory. Predators like a challenge and still telling victims they are responsible absolves the predator completely.
July 16, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Telling women to modify their behavior to avoid being victims of violent crime ignores the actual issue of predators being predatory. Predators like a challenge and still telling victims they are responsible absolves the predator completely.
"The history of slavery is the history of the United States. It was not peripheral to our founding, it was central to it. It is not irrelevant to our contemporary society, it created it. This history is in our soil, it is in our policies, and it must too be in our memories."
Powerful, a must read!
Powerful, a must read!
July 16, 2025 at 2:08 PM
"The history of slavery is the history of the United States. It was not peripheral to our founding, it was central to it. It is not irrelevant to our contemporary society, it created it. This history is in our soil, it is in our policies, and it must too be in our memories."
Powerful, a must read!
Powerful, a must read!
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It doesn't matter if they are ever coming for you.
It was always ever already too much that they were coming for anyone.
It was always ever already too much that they were coming for anyone.
July 10, 2025 at 12:28 AM
It doesn't matter if they are ever coming for you.
It was always ever already too much that they were coming for anyone.
It was always ever already too much that they were coming for anyone.
A short 4 hour listen but I savored it in 30 minute increments or less. Felt like I was listening to an aunt's recollections.
A lovely, lovely relationship between mother and daughter. And the impact a mother's expectations and guidance can have. I did miss grandma after the first third though.
A lovely, lovely relationship between mother and daughter. And the impact a mother's expectations and guidance can have. I did miss grandma after the first third though.
July 8, 2025 at 6:59 PM
A short 4 hour listen but I savored it in 30 minute increments or less. Felt like I was listening to an aunt's recollections.
A lovely, lovely relationship between mother and daughter. And the impact a mother's expectations and guidance can have. I did miss grandma after the first third though.
A lovely, lovely relationship between mother and daughter. And the impact a mother's expectations and guidance can have. I did miss grandma after the first third though.
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The reason I now believe ICE should be abolished is not that I don't think we need some kind of agency to deal with immigration and customs, but rather that this particular agency has so soiled its reputation and is operating so far out of bounds in a democracy that the only solution is to end it.
July 2, 2025 at 9:56 PM
The reason I now believe ICE should be abolished is not that I don't think we need some kind of agency to deal with immigration and customs, but rather that this particular agency has so soiled its reputation and is operating so far out of bounds in a democracy that the only solution is to end it.
Good month of reading!
Bookwoman of Troublesome Creek
Shark Heart
How Far the Light Reaches
Home is Where the Bodies Are
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
Bookwoman of Troublesome Creek
Shark Heart
How Far the Light Reaches
Home is Where the Bodies Are
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
July 2, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Good month of reading!
Bookwoman of Troublesome Creek
Shark Heart
How Far the Light Reaches
Home is Where the Bodies Are
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
Bookwoman of Troublesome Creek
Shark Heart
How Far the Light Reaches
Home is Where the Bodies Are
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty