Everything I know about life I learned from BREAST CANCER?!?!?
- I am not the sum of my parts
- The world is full of incredibly good-hearted people
- Breast cancer does not negotiate. It is wholly in charge
- I dont look good bald
- I am strong beyond my own belief
- Being vulnerable is more difficult for me than being strong
- Every family has a breast cancer story (or sadly will have)
- Chemotherapy is a necessary evil but an evil nonetheless
- Nose hair is hugely taken for granted
- Healing happens in its own time. But it happens
- Family & friends are forever interwoven into the tapestry of my life
- Like labour & delivery -- everyone's breast cancer experience is the same yet different
- Hugs are magic
- Life is fragile
- When you really believe you are going to die - - what you have accumulated never enters your mind. Your thoughts are singularly about the people you may leave behind
- Sharing my story out loud keeps me out of my own head. Sometimes a scary place
- Laughter really is the best medicine (ok maybe not the best but a close second to a Merlot)
- I now know who I can count on to be there in a crisis. And who I can't
- Why me? is not the question. Why anyone? is
- Prayers help
- Friends are the family you chose for yourself
- More frightening than the fear that I will have to go thru treatment again is the terror that someone else I love may have to
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