My Other Part-Time Job: Living With Cancer's Complications

Cancer is a job I never applied for.

BY Laura Yeager

PUBLISHED February 11, 2018

As well as being a cancer blogger, Laura Yeager is a religious essayist and a mental health blogger. A graduate of The Writers’ Workshop at The University of Iowa, she teaches writing at Kent State University and Gotham Writers’ Workshop. Laura survived cancer twice.

I teach three writing classes at two different schools, work as a freelance writer, maintain a household and take care of my 13-year-old son (and husband)/ But I also have another job: living with the complications of two prior bouts of cancer.

What is the current complication de jour?

I may have a tear in my breast implant that I received after a mastectomy in 2012. My plastic surgeon has ordered an MRI to see if the tear is there for sure.

So, I have to go to see doctors about this, which is time-consuming. Indeed, dealing with this cancer-related problem is just like having another part-time job.

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