One of the hardest things to realize about cancer is that it rarely goes in a straight line.
PUBLISHED May 20, 2019
Jane has earned three advanced degrees and had several fulfilling careers as a librarian, rehabilitation counselor and college teacher. Presently she does freelance writing. Her articles include the subjects of hearing loss and deafness, service dogs and struggling with cancer. She has been a cancer survivor since 2010.
She has myelodysplastic syndrome, which is rare, and would love to communicate with others who have MDS.
Did you believe when you were young that life went in a straight line?She has myelodysplastic syndrome, which is rare, and would love to communicate with others who have MDS.
I sure did and was very naïve. I had my life all mapped out for me. I would go to college, get my master’s in library science and get a job as a librarian. I planned down the road to find my prince, get married and have 2.5 children. (In those days of zero population growth we were told to have no more than two children). I would be a librarian for thirty years and retire with a good pension like my parents did. I told a friend during my last year in college that I would get a job, a car, an apartment and go to Europe. She cautiously told me this might take a long time.
Yeah – right. Woody Allen formulated the quote “If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.”
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