I only have several short hairs on my head, which unless you're really close to me, you wouldn't even notice. But when I take a shower, I still wash my "hair" with shampoo!
Early in 2006 I was diagnosed with breast cancer. Since that time, it’s become my mission to stress how important it is for women to receive regular mammograms. My tumor was found in a routine mammogram. At that time I was in perfect health (or so I thought) and was stunned to find out I had cancer.
Soon after the diagnosis I felt compelled to write down things that were happening to me… partially as a therapeutic exercise… and partly as a way to stay connected with our V100 radio listeners in Charleston, West Virginia! It turned out to be a great way to cope with what was happening… a way to pour out my emotions and deal with all that I was experiencing. I was surprised to learn that it was helping others, who were dealing with their own experience with cancer, feel not so alone… and many who discovered they could relate because of life experiences that had nothing to do with cancer.
My treatments are finished now… and I am well. I follow up with doctors often (that’s my new “normal”) and am in complete remission. I guess you can say I’m “cancer free,” but medical professionals use the term “remission.”At any rate, I’m spunky and healthy again!!!
This is my Journal... it is not expert advice. It's simply an honest account of my personal experience... the good, bad, and the ugly. (You may be surprised at how much GOOD there was!)
Who am I? I don't know yet! I know what I love today... I know what disturbs me today. But some or all of that could change tomorrow. So then, who would I be? I'm a spirit... a good one, I think... spending some time on earth to love... and to remember... who I really am.
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