Cancer on our Calendar – guest post

A dreary wet Monday after a gorgeous sunny Sunday.  Being it is the second week of March though, I can’t complain.  Crocous have been in bloom for weeks now.  Tulips starting to bud.  Trees and bushes too.  It really feels like Spring.  But this evening I must return to work at the clinic where it is still a cold winter for some. Today’s breast cancer blogger hails from the UK.  Yvonne has been penning her posts for a little over a year now.  I decided to include her “About me” profile as it is such a succinct and well written introduction to writing about cancer. You can find Yvonne at time to consider the lilies About me now … What about me these days? Given what I’ve read and what I’ve seen, I’m not that different from many who wander through cancerland.  I used to complain about the pace of life as a woman trying to play well the parts of mother, wife, and profesional.  Just months shy of 49  (a fact that shocks me), with no family history of breast cancer, and the “all clear” on my baseline and subsequent mammograms,  I was wholly unprepared to add the job of cancer patient to my curriculum vitae. Unprepared. Reluctant. Angry. Just as I was coming into my own last October, rediscovering the endorphine high from a good run, I found something. Not a lump exactly, but what my doctor would tell me was a distinct difference in my right breast. I would like to say I was doing my monthly self-exam, but that would be un...
Source: Being Cancer Network - Category: Cancer Authors: Tags: Guest Post * Living with Cancer Breast cancer Source Type: blogs