"I'm sorry I didn't get it" from an onc RN with cancer

Artista928

https://herecomesthesun927.com/2016/11/14/dear-eve...

Great read.

MinusTwo

Artista - thanks for posting. It really was a great read.

Artista928

Here's another article written by a young bc woman who speaks to much of how we feel, I think. Found it on FB;

http://www.vox.com/first-person/2016/11/22/13641292/breast-cancer-what-to-say

FightingTheFight

I enjoyed both articles, esp. the second one (since we're both the same age). I don't want to have a perpetual pity party, but people don't really seem to understand when I say I'm having the worse year of my life (my mother also passed less than a year ago).

They don't understand the upset or sadness that even just having no taste buds (or that what I can taste often tastes terrible) brings. So I feel obligated to shelter them from the even worse realities and it feels isolating.

Ronnie3001

This article brought tears to my eyes, it reminds me of how I initially felt and how people who are not going through this diagnosis can't possible understand..

Thank you so much for posting.

Ronnie

gb2115

I too really liked this article. It is hard to understand what others are going through unless you truly walk in their shoes. Especially the part of looking stuff up on the internet. Seriously, I'm in my late 30's. You think I'm going to stay off of Google? I actually had someone say to me that my situation wasn't "as bad as it could be," where to me my situation was nothing but devastating at the time. It made me very angry. But at the same time, I feel this experience, as miserable at it has been and continues to be, has increased my compassion for others. You never know what life is going to bring, and even blessing through seemingly impossible circumstances.

queen_k0302

If I would have waited that long, I would be dead. I was diagnosed with 2a, invasive breast cancer at 31 last yr. I have 0 family history and my brca test came back negative. My tumor doubled in size in just one month.