I Hate Cancer
Your life can change in a moment. All of your priorities. All of your struggles. Suddenly things are put in a new perspective, and like it or not, this is who you are now.
"Hello. This is Sherri calling from Cancer Care. We need to get you in to see the oncologist right away."
And just like that you can feel yourself change. You can feel your stomach drop and the breathe get pulled from your very lungs.
And soon you are discussing things like unknown masses, and CA125 levels, and what organs you are willing to lose if they open you up and see it has spread further than expected.
You are poked. Proded. Examined. Re-examined. Cut into. Cut up. Stapled up. And sent home to wait on the pathology report.
And this is the story if you are lucky. If you have access to medical care. This is the story if you catch things in the early stages. This is the story if you are me.
There is so much unknown. In the midst of what has become the largest mental and physical trauma of my life, at the age of 27, I now have so much to be thankful of, so much to be terrified by, and a completely different world to now exist in.
"Hello. This is Sherri calling from Cancer Care. We need to get you in to see the oncologist right away."
And just like that you can feel yourself change. You can feel your stomach drop and the breathe get pulled from your very lungs.
And soon you are discussing things like unknown masses, and CA125 levels, and what organs you are willing to lose if they open you up and see it has spread further than expected.
You are poked. Proded. Examined. Re-examined. Cut into. Cut up. Stapled up. And sent home to wait on the pathology report.
And this is the story if you are lucky. If you have access to medical care. This is the story if you catch things in the early stages. This is the story if you are me.
There is so much unknown. In the midst of what has become the largest mental and physical trauma of my life, at the age of 27, I now have so much to be thankful of, so much to be terrified by, and a completely different world to now exist in.
