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On cancer, waiting, and walking away |
| Published: August 26, 2007, 3:00 am |
| Tags: away, bill, cancer, center, chemotherapy, clean, disease, hair, health, radiation, room, scars, surgeon, surgery, waiting, walking, worries |
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Filed under: Cancer SurvivorsWalking into my cancer center waiting room is one of my most sobering experiences. I enter this room -- jam-packed full of men, women, and children -- every three months for a breast cancer follow-up. It never gets easier. It always startles me, stirs my emotions, makes me realize how so many people are touched by such a treacherous and all-consuming disease. The fact that I sit in this room, that I am one of these many people, still doesn't seem real.It's been almost three years since I got a phone call from a surgeon declaring, "You have cancer." I didn't believe it then. Even after all I've been through -- surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, and more -- I hardly believe it now. But it's real. I have scars and new hair and a whole new set of worries to prove it.Walking into that waiting room proves it's real. There's nothing like it. There's also nothing like walking out, with a clean bill of health and the promise of three more [ Full article ] |
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