New Normal? What’s That? Moving Forward after Breast Cancer

New Normal? What’s That? Moving Forward after Breast Cancer: It’s been more than six years since my breast cancer diagnosis, so it’s time to start taking stock of things, or so I’ve been told. I’m supposed to be making good progress on picking up the pieces. I’m supposed to start putting cancer behind me and find my emnew normal/em, whatever that means. Society seems to be nudging – no, more like pushing – me to hurry up. Be done. Put it behind me. Move on. Forget about it. Get back to the way things were. The trouble is, it’s not that simple, or even possible.
I will never be done with cancer. And guess what? I don’t even want to be.