How we imagine our future may influence our health and healing.
PUBLISHED July 05, 2018
Khevin Barnes is a Male Breast Cancer survivor, magician and speaker. He is currently writing, composing and producing a comedy stage musical about Male Breast Cancer Awareness. He travels wherever he is invited to speak to (and do a little magic for) men and women about breast cancer. www.BreastCancerSpeaker.com www.MaleBreastCancerSurvivor.com
This week, I'm celebrating my 68th birthday and my fourth year as a male breast cancer survivor. One the eve of my day of birth, I'll be driving to a campsite, not far from my home in Vail, Arizona. When the suns first rays appear over the Eastern horizon, I'll be on my way to climb Picacho Peak, a notoriously craggy and rocky mountain that juts out of the desert chaparral like a jagged, granite tooth. But even more interesting than this excursion of mine is the fact that I climbed it several times in my imagination as I was recuperating from double full-knee replacement surgery just six months ago.
Without a doubt, this surgery was the most difficult I've chosen to endure in my life – even more traumatic than the mastectomy of my left breast.
But having done the research and talking with lots of other folks with knees replaced, I believed that my life would be dramatically improved after the two to three months of initial recovery time.
Without a doubt, this surgery was the most difficult I've chosen to endure in my life – even more traumatic than the mastectomy of my left breast.
But having done the research and talking with lots of other folks with knees replaced, I believed that my life would be dramatically improved after the two to three months of initial recovery time.
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