March 20th, 2018 Work & School
We are warriors, we are strong, we are amazing individuals who get the full perspective of what matters in life after living through cancer. You know that saying "youth is wasted on the young"? Well I think, "health is wasted on the well".
Think about it, once you hear the words, "You have cancer." everything changes - inside and out. Your perspective changes, your ideas of self and happiness change and I say every day that I wish I could go back in time and bitch-slap pre-cancer me for all of the things I worried about t that meant nothing in the grand scheme of things.
It is not necessarily enough, though. It is not like, "Oh, I had cancer and now life is perfect." Nope. Not even a little bit. You now need to figure out life after cancer - or during cancer for our stage 4 sisters and brothers. For those of us who are “early stagers”, we need to get back to work because goddamnit, we CAN. We are considered “healthy” enough to get back to work (some of us even work during diagnosis and treatment) but it is not that easy.
Think about it, once you hear the words, "You have cancer." everything changes - inside and out. Your perspective changes, your ideas of self and happiness change and I say every day that I wish I could go back in time and bitch-slap pre-cancer me for all of the things I worried about t that meant nothing in the grand scheme of things.
It is not necessarily enough, though. It is not like, "Oh, I had cancer and now life is perfect." Nope. Not even a little bit. You now need to figure out life after cancer - or during cancer for our stage 4 sisters and brothers. For those of us who are “early stagers”, we need to get back to work because goddamnit, we CAN. We are considered “healthy” enough to get back to work (some of us even work during diagnosis and treatment) but it is not that easy.
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