I have heard more than a few statements to hating myself or being angry at myself for getting this disease.
I think a lot of that is because we keep hearing about breast cancer is a modifiable risk. I think this is a horrible thing to say to a breast cancer patient. Especially since they can’t really say for sure if YOUR cancer was from a “modifiable” cause. They say lung cancer is mostly caused from smoking too, but the person who started smoking in the 70’s didn’t know, what we know now. If I knew that, I would have bought apple stock in the 70’s too.
Please stop beating yourself up. We are all just trying to live the best life we can live, ours is tough enough with breast cancer without beating ourselves up as well.
My doctors look at me now as an overweight older lady and presumed had bad habits causing my cancer.
I was never overweight until 8 years ago after a bad accident. I was actually considered a little too thin. Because I worked and played hard and felt like eating and sleeping were optional. I have friends who are vegetarians, rail thin and never drank or smoked in their life and still got breast cancer.
Please give yourself the benefit of the doubt regardless of who you are or your previous habits. Cancer beats you up plenty, don’t give it an extra hand to hit you with.💕