Hello Sarah, I too can relate to adjusting to normalcy is challenging.
I read a piece a few months back explaining how being diagnosed with cancer feels more like you’re being kidnapped. We struggle to stay alive while receiving our treatments and dealing with the pain that comes from that. Survival is escaping and being free once again, but we are left with the trauma in the back of our minds. It’s nice to deal with the “normal” day to day issues again, but like that piece said we are still dealing with the trauma that came with it.
I have been receiving immunotherapy for the last four years & been doing much better year to year, but I have noticed everyone has forgotten the battle I fight and they have fully transitioned back to their normalcy & what they expect from me. Some days I am tired and want to remind everyone what I am going thought, but most days I don’t notice and enjoy my motherhood duties that I fought so hard to have back. Evan though the days are long I still enjoy dealing with the everyday problems much more than any cancer related issues.