9/5/03 to 9/5/08, today is my 5th year Survivor Anniversary

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NaughtybyNature
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edited June 2014 in Life After Breast Cancer

Today marks my 5th Survivor anniversary.  I count it from the day I was diagnosed... I survived the news!!

At age 36 I was one of the youngest members that posted here at that time, I had no family history and I went alone for my biopsy which I never expected to receive the news right there and then... how things have changed in five years.

The first two, three years if anything went on with my body, the thought "cancer" would just surface immediately.  But as the fourth and fifth year rolled in, the thought has become more dormant, or on the back burner like I usually describe it... and what it will be... it will be!  If something is to happen, I sincerely prefer that it happens to me vs. my mother, daughter or husband... I have been there and done that, hopefully I will still remember how to fight it w/ all my mighty and more so am given the opportunity to do such.

I don't talk from years of hammering my head with information about BC (the new meds., the new procedures, eat this, don't eat that...), because in my opinion too much information about something in some cases is not healthy... you just duel on the same over and over again. 

I talk from my heart and personal experience which is I don't have to know it all because I just have to either stare at the mirror and see the scars on my "lemon" and arm pit and/or look into the "invisible scar" in my husband's eyes who lost his first wife to BC complications. 

Therefore the way to go is forward... and believe me, even though I started the day with a smile, the flood gates already opened... in my mind not only I summarized this past five years (what a ride) being totally thrilled that I made it to the 5th year mark ("nickel" - Iodine) and expect to make more marks... but I also thought of all "fallen angels" that I met here.

May we all be given the opportunity to fight this monster like we have never fought before.

PS:  And to all my girls here, I dedicate to you "I hope you dance" by Lee Ann Womack.

Always me,

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