Hello @naturegirl5 and congratulations on your new status as a "cancer survivor"! I am so pleased to hear that your cancer was found at an early stage and that it was not aggressive. These are very good things.

You are right, this is new territory for you, as it was for all of us who have claimed this new status. For me, after three cancer surgeries for a rare form of cancer, being a cancer survivor gives me a new outlook on life. I think less about "why me" and more about "what now." For each of us, it is a different frame of mind depending on our age, our responsibilities, and our background.

If you are comfortable doing so, please share a little about yourself before your cancer diagnosis and what your goals in life are now.

I would like to invite some other survivors into this discussion and hope that they share with you what cancer survivorship means to them. You may have met some of them in other posts, but please meet, @marvinjsturing, @dakotarunner, @merpreb, @azkidney57, and @harriethodgson1. There are many more cancer survivors here on Connect. I encourage you to read some of their stories.

What is your greatest challenge as you consider yourself a "Cancer Survivor" @naturegirl5 ?