How I Survive Cancer with Trusted Tablets
We are not crazy. We are not stupid. We are not lazy. We are cancer survivors with real medical
problems.
Life is such a precious gift so why cloud it with things that are going to make you depressed?
Cancer survivors should enjoy every day they are alive.
More work is needed to develop programs specializing in the physical rehabilitation of cancer survivors… to improve the function and quality of life.
Sur-vi-vor, noun [ser-vahy-ver]: a person who continues to function or prosper in spite of opposition, hardship, or setbacks.
As we enter a new phase in the understanding of cancer biology and its subsequent treatment, increasingly, more of us are living longer and fuller lives, with at least two-thirds of those diagnosed living at least five years. Yet extreme fear or awkwardness — or both — surrounding the topic of cancer survivorship has rendered even the most hearty either mute or shortly absent at first discussion. Truth is, we all have a story, often tragic, of the consequences of a cancer diagnosis…
Not quite a decade ago, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. Although Martina McBride’s song “I’m Gonna Love You Through It” was not written about me, the lyrics are hauntingly familiar. I was 38-years old with three small kids and an incredibly loving husband.
There is no easy cancer diagnosis, and the treatment can be downright brutal. When I finished chemotherapy I was a shell of my former self. I had more problems than I can list here and more pain than I care to remember. Determined to get my life back, I healed myself. There was no other option. At that time “cancer rehabilitation” wasn’t something that anyone talked about much, and there was no formal program to help survivors heal in Massachusetts…
