It is weird to
think that 5 months ago I knew almost nothing about breast cancer. Now, I know way more than I ever wanted
to. I readily admit that I knew very
little about breast cancer before my diagnosis.
I had no idea how scary and exhausting and expensive it would all
be. When I was initially diagnosed I
never really even considered that this is something that would forever change
me. Maybe it was shock, maybe it was me
being naïve but death was never something that I considered. Just now, it is beginning to hit me that even
after all the chemo and radiation I am still not going to be in the clear. With the high survivor rates, I sometimes forget
that death is still a possibility. Breast cancer kills roughly 40,000 women a
year in the US. For me, getting breast
cancer was already against the odds, who’s to say the odds will be in my favor
now. I worry about my daughter. I know she is only 4 years old, but I pray that
she doesn’t ever have to go through this.
Hopefully there will be a cure by then.
Looking
on the Bright Side…there are millions of breast cancer survivors living in the
US and I guess that’s a pretty decent statistic to have on my side.
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