Update
Jan/Tuesday/2012 12:29 AM Filed in:
Healthy and Fit After Cancer | Breast
cancer
In an epilogue at the end of my book, "101 Things
You Should Know About Breast Cancer" I shared that
I had a recurrence of my breast cancer and would give
an update from time to time on my blog. My book launch
at the end of September into October was a time of
celebration and joy. I couldn't have asked for a more
perfect time in sharing.
However, that season was to change. What initially seemed like a regional recurrence, where I was filled with hope of snapping the cancer back into submission, turned into a very different scenario. In November I learned instead, that my cancer was spreading.
"Metastatic disease" is what I am dealing with now, where there is no cure but a space where we work to "manage" the cancer with one drug after another, until they stop working. It means that my life will likely be much shorter than it otherwise would have been… but then who knows how long any of our lives are going to be?
So far this journey has been filled with much emotion, highs and lows, many questions, and much uncertainty. It's a place I never really thought I would be, but here I am.
I hope to share some of this journey as I go through it… so stay tuned.
Wishing you love and peace,
Pam
However, that season was to change. What initially seemed like a regional recurrence, where I was filled with hope of snapping the cancer back into submission, turned into a very different scenario. In November I learned instead, that my cancer was spreading.
"Metastatic disease" is what I am dealing with now, where there is no cure but a space where we work to "manage" the cancer with one drug after another, until they stop working. It means that my life will likely be much shorter than it otherwise would have been… but then who knows how long any of our lives are going to be?
So far this journey has been filled with much emotion, highs and lows, many questions, and much uncertainty. It's a place I never really thought I would be, but here I am.
I hope to share some of this journey as I go through it… so stay tuned.
Wishing you love and peace,
Pam
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