So I put a little poll out there on my Instagram account and asked people what they wanted to hear about from me on the blog re: cancer. The response was fairly unanimous. People want to hear me complain. You want to hear about the hard stuff, the stuff that got me down. If you follow me on social media, I hope I've made it clear that this cancer stuff does absolutely suck. There are no two ways about it. Between the 5 mile runs and all the other positive fluff...there was a lot of very raw emotion, puke, crying, anxiety, constipation (ohhh emmm geee the CONSTIPATION!), threats to move back to Chicago (by myself)...the list goes on. So here goes...the negative things that hit me the hardest: The waiting: There is SO much waiting during this process. There was waiting for my mammogram, waiting for my biopsy appointment, waiting for the results from my biopsy/my diagnosis, waiting to know if the cancer had spread, waiting for my surgery, waiting for my second surgery, waiting to start … [Read more...]
