Writing

 I believe we experience emotional responses to cancer that are typical, they are the same in each of us. We don’t know it yet because there is little research on survivorship and emotional well-being.

Every day there are young moms and dads and even children diagnosed with cancer who find their way through the cancer experience alone, without the wisdom and guidance of all those who have gone before.

When I began to recover from my surgery, my middle daughter wrote a story about me.  In the story, she used words like scary, yuck, and weird. Those words were all describing how she felt about me.