Cancer Post # ..... who knows
4/14 was my year anniversary of finding out I had cancer. 6/6 is the one year anniversary of my hysterectomy.
I was rereading my October entry and I am pleased to say. I am pain free. What I ended up needing to do was get my tail in the gym. Going 3-4x and week (core work/cardio) helped. That is huge relief off my shoulders. I've fallen off going to the gym but I will be back at it soon.
Tis the season for commencement. I was watching speech and I found out that the speaker had been diagnosed 2x with cancer. It brought up a feeling of kinship and sadness. I wonder if it will always be like this??? Ive always said Im so fortunate that I knew I had cancer before they told me I did. That saved my mental health...it really did. I know that I am lucky and soooo many people dont have that luxury. But even though I knew, I always felt like an imposter cancer pt for some reason. idk why or how but I did. I didn't need any radiation/chemo. But I did have major surgery. I did have to go to PT. i did have to get shots. I did have to go to a urogynocologist. this gave me a different sense of a lot of different things. How mds treat pts. How you as a pt feel with everything. its pretty all over the place really. another thing I know is just how kind people can be when they want. I got shown so much love over the last year it is heartwarming. So what this long-winded thought is getting to is... there are many different kinds of cancer pts. All of our journeys are valid. Kinship can happen. There is no imposter syndrome. just different types of fights.
to all my cancer warriors and caretakers. I see you. I love you. Hang in there. Good days and bad days happen. Just try your best to get back up when you feel bad and go again.
I was rereading my October entry and I am pleased to say. I am pain free. What I ended up needing to do was get my tail in the gym. Going 3-4x and week (core work/cardio) helped. That is huge relief off my shoulders. I've fallen off going to the gym but I will be back at it soon.
Tis the season for commencement. I was watching speech and I found out that the speaker had been diagnosed 2x with cancer. It brought up a feeling of kinship and sadness. I wonder if it will always be like this??? Ive always said Im so fortunate that I knew I had cancer before they told me I did. That saved my mental health...it really did. I know that I am lucky and soooo many people dont have that luxury. But even though I knew, I always felt like an imposter cancer pt for some reason. idk why or how but I did. I didn't need any radiation/chemo. But I did have major surgery. I did have to go to PT. i did have to get shots. I did have to go to a urogynocologist. this gave me a different sense of a lot of different things. How mds treat pts. How you as a pt feel with everything. its pretty all over the place really. another thing I know is just how kind people can be when they want. I got shown so much love over the last year it is heartwarming. So what this long-winded thought is getting to is... there are many different kinds of cancer pts. All of our journeys are valid. Kinship can happen. There is no imposter syndrome. just different types of fights.
to all my cancer warriors and caretakers. I see you. I love you. Hang in there. Good days and bad days happen. Just try your best to get back up when you feel bad and go again.