Six years ago this week, I lay half-naked on a cold table, one arm crooked uncomfortably over my head, counting the ceiling tiles and listening to bad country music as I received one final dose of radiation. Late February marked the end of a journey that had begun in May of the previous year–Ma...
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I am a 27 year old mother of 3 who is waiting for biopsy results, and though I have not gotten a diagnosis yet, your article helped me realize if we get bad news, it will not be the end of the world. So thank you.
2/22/08 10:27am
That's right, Kim. News you don't want to hear... but you (and your family) would be able to deal with it, trust me. Cancer isn't the death sentence it was even 10 years ago - research and treatment have come SO far. But I feel for you, and I'm sending you good karma - I well remember those hours spent in between — you don't have cancer, but you don't NOT have it either. Yet. Whichever way the shoe drops, Kim, you'll move forward and deal. Take care- PJH
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5/28/08 1:34pm
Maybe it is the magic of 6 years? I know when I was first told I had invasive breast cancer and all the treatments ahead of me, I couldn't look past the next appointment nevermind the next year. But time moves on and thankfully with -out more cancer so do I. I have taken my experience to start my own business and I have a blog I call Entrepreneurial Menopause Freedom. 6 years ago I never would have thought it!
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PJ,
What a truly inspiring post. While you never sugar-coat the truth about what it's been like for you -- and for other women -- to go through the unpleasantness of breast cancer -- you always manage to show all the good that can come of it: feeling grateful for every day, including the aggravating ones, and for helping other people get through their difficult situations. Those are some lucky women who live close enough to make it to your Friday afternoon support group.