Survivor.
Why does that word bug me so fiercely? Every time I hear myself described as a cancer survivor, I mentally stomp my foot and shake my fist and shout “NO! I am NOT a survivor!”
Which isn’t to say I haven’t had cancer and lived to tell the tale. Just that the images “survivor” conjures up aren’t quite how I view my experience.
Survivor is the woman whose home is demolished by a tornado–while she’s huddled in the cellar–and she lives to tell the tale.
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