Trusting Yourself Through Cancer

Trusting your intuition can be key.

BY Kim Johnson

PUBLISHED March 06, 2018

Kim is a nursing student who is hoping to find her place amongst the phenomenal oncology nurses and doctors who cared for her sister. She loves reading, volunteering and enjoying the outdoors of Colorado.

On a random day in late winter 2013, I came to a realization. It had been an often thought about issue as my siblings and I watched our sister grow ill from a mystery illness that she was reluctant to seek treatment for. I thought many things about why she was ill, but all of a sudden, as a soft snow fell from the sky, I just knew. I do not know why, but in that moment a piece of me reasoned with the facts and knew that it was cancer. Precious time was lost, as it was nearly seven more months before a doctor gave us the news.

Many things have been said about my sister, both within my own family and by outsiders looking in. Many of these things have validity. But, as someone who has been by her side more often than I have been alone in the last three years, I know that many do not. She has had the blessing of modern medicine to help get her to where she finds herself today. She has also been cursed to have been diagnosed at a cross-section of an ever-changing field. While on the cusp of many new treatments, we have yet to discover cures for the many side effects that any treatment brings.

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