HUMP TIME for Radiation = Cancer Survivor??
Today feels like a HUMP day - when Ive come to the top of the hill and my life is changing - cannot explain it all, but from today things will be different in. my life. Its 50 years today since my Mum passed away at 42 - I had just turned 17 and maybe this has something to do with it. Don't know. But as I began rubbing the Vitamin E cream into my boob today I felt a change..... I felt like I was now a cancer survivor. I know that I shouldn't say that this soon into treatment - Yet that's my gut feeling. After the half way mark yesterday with radiation I feel like Im on the homeward run as a cancer survivor not a cancer fighter. I have felt good and as normal as I used to except every now and then my mind wanders and I remember I have breast cancer. But my mind isn't comfortable with that statement now. I feel like Ive had breast cancer and now Im a survivor.
I do understand that until the pet scan about 5-6 weeks after treatment finishes the doctors won't think Im a survivor - and maybe it could return. But right now, in this moment I am a survivor.
This very week Ive heard about women not directly in my circle of friends or family who have had drastic diagnosis and have what I would describe much more of a fight than I face, and it has made me realise how fortunate I am with my diagnosis and fairly simple treatment thus far. I am so LUCKY to be where I am right now and feeling so good.
Maybe this is just one of the highs to precede the next low - or maybe I am over the hump.
Anyone else feel like this during their journey?
Well onward and upward from this cancer survivor. Invitation to you to get on this train - we are going places we have never been before with a whole new attitude and love of life. It'll be a helluva great ride. Toot. toot. All aboard. :) <3 :)
I do understand that until the pet scan about 5-6 weeks after treatment finishes the doctors won't think Im a survivor - and maybe it could return. But right now, in this moment I am a survivor.
This very week Ive heard about women not directly in my circle of friends or family who have had drastic diagnosis and have what I would describe much more of a fight than I face, and it has made me realise how fortunate I am with my diagnosis and fairly simple treatment thus far. I am so LUCKY to be where I am right now and feeling so good.
Maybe this is just one of the highs to precede the next low - or maybe I am over the hump.
Anyone else feel like this during their journey?
Well onward and upward from this cancer survivor. Invitation to you to get on this train - we are going places we have never been before with a whole new attitude and love of life. It'll be a helluva great ride. Toot. toot. All aboard. :) <3 :)
