I find myself
reminiscing with Jeff and sharing with our kid’s stories of our past. My kids were shocked to learn that when I was
a kid, Siri didn’t exist; (gasp) cell phones did not exist. In fact, the phones we had in our house were
attached to the wall. And it stayed
there. And there was a cord attached
to that which prevented you from going too far…unless you were lucky enough to have a
super long cord that allowed you to stretch and take it into the next
room. And remember when you had to go to
a movie store to rent a video? You might get there only to find that all
the copies of “Adventures in Babysitting” and “Mannequin” are out? The horror, remember that?
My hope is that
someday I will be able to tell my kids or other youngsters about what people
with cancer had to go through. I hope
that kids will be shocked to learn that “back in the day” I had breast cancer
and had to have my breasts removed!!! I
hope they will be stunned to learn that the medicine I had to take made me lose
all my hair!!! Can you imagine? I hope they are horrified to hear that I had
to get radiation therapy, where they used a machine to deliver a high dose
radiation beams to my body!!! I had to
go through nine long grueling months of treatment. Isn’t that crazy?
I am so thankful
for the modern technology that I have available to me, but I pray that
technology and medical advances continue to the point that what I am going
through now will seem barbaric and ridiculous in the future. Maybe even the fact that I had something
called “cancer” will seem crazy (when talking to those younger than me I may
consider switching “crazy” for “cray-cray” to sound more hip). I hope to be able to include this story to
any “can you believe it?” conversation.
I hope to be able to share this experience in this same way that I will
tell my kids about a time before vaccines virtually eliminated many diseases
that can lead to life threatening illnesses!!!.
That there was a time before anesthesia and epidurals!!! That white
people and black people lived in a segregated society!!! That people used to
live without a washing machine and a dishwasher!!! There was a time before digital cameras!!! Remember taking pictures with a camera; we
could only take a limited amount before having to change the film and we didn’t
even know if the pictures turned out until after we went to the store to have
the film developed and pay for the photos!!!
Now that’s like totally cray-cray! Am I right?
Looking
on the Bright Side…I will be very happy to sound (and be) old and share my
horrific cancer stories if it means that others don’t have to go through the
same thing.
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