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@rhongirl - Thank you for sharing!
This year it’s 30! Years ago since was diagnosed with breast cancer.
I didn’t want people to know either- just didn’t want to talk about it.
I also experienced guilt when friends and acquaintances died.
Now I live with the after effects of the treatment- totally messed up immune system and damaged intestines.
I definitely rather have this and stay in this world, but it’s difficult to make people understand why I’m always sick
I had 3 young children at the time. The youngest didn’t understand, the second thought I was going to die and slept in my room for the 6 months of chemo. The oldest understatement I would be well after the treatment.
I still get my crying fits once a year at the anniversary!
We do the best we can.
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Thank you for sharing your encouragement, @astaingegerdm. I have been having more trouble with neuropathy, and I was almost in tears this morning. I tell myself it was a small price to pay for the killing of the cancer cells, but sometimes I am overcome by fumbling fingers, numbness, tingling, or inability to do fine motor skill tasks that I used to. I am an artist. . so my hands are such a big part of who I am. But I imagine that is true for all of us. I just have to have my "crying fit" as you say and move on! :). We DO do the best we can! Congratulations on 30 years! What an encouragement to us all!