Don't let anyone else decide how you choose to celebrate any post-cancer milestones.
PUBLISHED June 24, 2019
A native New Yorker, Shira Kallus Zwebner is a communications consultant and writer living with her husband and three children in Jerusalem, Israel. Diagnosed in 2017 with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, she's fighting her cancer battle and blogging about the journey at hipstermomblog.com
"Why would you celebrate being one-year cancer-free with pizza and cake?"
I felt her judgment just oozing through the phone and was caught speechless. We were discussing the tailspin my one-year “cancerversary” sent me into and how overwhelmed I was to have celebrated such a milestone when the odds were so stacked against me. I stammered in response and searched for excuses.
"Well, the 7k walk that I did and the visit to the Kotel (Wailing Wall in Jerusalem) to pray and give thanks to G-d were all part of my one-year cancerversary celebration. The pizza and cake were really our dinner celebration for the kids," I said.
I felt her judgment just oozing through the phone and was caught speechless. We were discussing the tailspin my one-year “cancerversary” sent me into and how overwhelmed I was to have celebrated such a milestone when the odds were so stacked against me. I stammered in response and searched for excuses.
"Well, the 7k walk that I did and the visit to the Kotel (Wailing Wall in Jerusalem) to pray and give thanks to G-d were all part of my one-year cancerversary celebration. The pizza and cake were really our dinner celebration for the kids," I said.
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