New Normal

Talking with a nurse today who was treating me for lymphedema, she said something which finally made a connection in my understanding of what our new normal is. I was saying that it is difficult to move forward and put cancer out of your mind when there are things which you have to do differently all the time because of it. She said that making these things part of your routine so that you don't have to think about it being different is the way to move on. When they just become automatic or just a liitle part of your day then you don't need to consciously think about the impact of having had cancer all the time. I guess we have to stop looking backwards and comparing our life before and after getting breast cancer. Things are never going to be like that again and just as with any life changing event we gradually learn to adapt a new way of living. Some of it good some of it not so but a life we can appreciate anyway. It was just one of those light bulb moments for me and I finally made sense of the 'new normal' phrase. :) Deanne xx