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Christa Avampato

Curating a Creative Life as a Storyteller, Scientist, and Business Leader

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And we're out! Phinny and I took one last spin around one of his favorite parts of @centralparknyc, a place that is so dear to us. Now we're off to the country for two weeks while our Brooklyn apartment is being renovated. The Upper West Side's been my home for the better part of 16 years. As a kid who grew up on Sesame Street, it was my dream to live here. Now on every corner & block I have memories–joyful, tragic, & ordinary moments that felt extraordinary, then & now. An update on my sweet pup, Phineas as I share a little photoshoot we did in @centralparknyc before our move this week! He was just diagnosed with early stage kidney disease that's caused extremely high blood pressure. He has no outward symptoms, but it was picked up in his bloodwork. Though it was not ideal to start him on a new med right before going out of town for 2 weeks, his blood pressure was so high that it's shocking he has no symptoms. He's gotten a few doses of one medicine and seems okay. I stopped the second medication due to side effects. Exactly 2 years ago today, I woke up to my new life after active cancer treatment. I was nearly bald, had a baseball-sized burn from radiation in the middle of my chest over my heart, was on high-dose prednisone and a bevy of other meds to heal my lungs from a life-threatening chemo allergy, and was filled with joy and gratitude to be alive. Simply the best. Godspeed, Queen Tina Turner. What a life, legacy, and role model. Every time I tried to do anything today, it was a struggle. Something, and often everything, kept going wrong at every turn. At one point I was cry-laughing because it was ridiculous how hard even the simplest tasks were, to say nothing of the most complicated ones! This news makes me even more grateful that I found an incredible rent-stabilized apartment in Brooklyn: April 2023 median rent in Manhattan is $4,200; Brooklyn is $3,500; Northwest Queens is $3,500.😱😱😱 Let me tell you about my adventures in bra shopping after a mastectomy and reconstructive surgery. I have tried on dozens of different ones because I am now a full cup size and band size bigger, and a different shape. I don't really need them but they help smooth out my silhouette with different outfits and I can't get any with underwires. Brooklyn friends, I'm going to be one of you soon! My application for a rent-stabilized apartment in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, has been approved, and I'm signing the lease on Saturday. This is my grandmother's birthday - she would be turning 104 if she was still with us - and so many significant events in my life have happened on the 20th of May.

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