Hi, friends! My essay, This Is What No One Tells You About Surviving Breast Cancer, is now live on HuffPost Personal. Check it out!
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Hi, friends! My essay, This Is What No One Tells You About Surviving Breast Cancer, is now live on HuffPost Personal. Check it out!
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I love your image of being ‘wrapped in the cocoon of the cancer treatment process’. When I was given the NED declaration I felt like I was dropped in the middle of a lake in a rickety row boat without oars, with no wind in sight. Another woman I talked to felt like she stepped off a crowded bus into an arid desert and the bus drove away.
Thank you for your well-written essay.
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Yes! You just feel so alone and lost.
Thank you for your kind words!
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Great article Jen!
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Thank you!
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I read your Huff Post article and just wanted to thank you. While I am a man who have survived stage 4 throat cancer rather than Breast cancer, your article sounded exactly like my survival experiences. I too have often joked that I hope I am still alive to see future events. I too have become lost in the changes post survival, and often feel like survival was maybe not the best outcome. I was always a positive, upbeat, dreamer. Now I am none of that and feel lost to this disease, and have no idea how to stop it all. Anyways your article resonated with me deeply and I just wanted to thank you for writing it.
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I am so glad that it touched you! I think pretty much anyone who’s survived this awful disease feels these things, yet we never really talk about it. I feel like it’s the big secret of cancer, and no one really wants to recognize that life after treatment is so very hard.
Sending love and good thoughts your way!
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