I was talking to a friend a few weeks ago and she said something that didn’t quite sit right with me. In a sentence or two she made the insinuation that I was “unhealthy“ or “sickly“. That’s certainly not the case at all. At the same time there are many people, mostly family, that think that after cancer treatment my life went back to what it was before. That’s not the case, either. When someone doesn’t understand a certain disease though, I can see why they would think the way they do. I survived breast cancer in 2012. I am in remission. I take a maintenance therapy to make sure I stay in remission. I have three years left of that treatment. As a result of treatment however, there were side effects and conditions that changed me physically and emotionally that I have had to accept and make adjustments with. Nothing went back to “normal”. There are certain things I do not eat anymore or that I’m careful with due to being estrogen receptor+. The strength in my right arm is half of
"Don't believe everything you hear and half of what you see". This has been said too many times from the same people that actually believe everything they hear and see. My life is an open book. You want to know something, ask me and I will tell you. It may surprise you ..... or, it may not.