Tuesday, January 22, 2013

I Know Too Much

I Know Too Much

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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