It never goes away. Nobody tells you the fear of cancer coming back never goes away. And you might not believe it even if they did. When you finish treatment you think finally, it’s all over. But then the time comes for the blood test, the scan, the biopsy, the xray, the follow up appointment. Suddenly [...]
It’s much easier to like your life – and yourself – when things are going well. When I had cancer, I felt a deep sense of shame at having somehow “failed” at life, at having become a “victim” of something I couldn’t control, rather than being a raging success at everything as we’re taught we’re [...]
This isn’t going to last forever, my friend. It came from nowhere, didn’t it? It came from inside you, and not from the outside, like scary things are supposed to. They’re supposed to be under the bed, around the corner, in the closet, in that spooky house across the street, with that car careening down [...]
