Tag: control
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Welcome to the Club
This month marked my official induction into the Survivorship Program. I know that phrase should be encouraging, but I didn’t ask for this membership. Never downloaded the app, never registered my email, yet here I am. In the club. This brought so many emotions. I had to reach out to a few of my breast…
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What to Say When You Don’t Know What to Say
I had a long talk on the way home yesterday with a good friend of mine who trekked through this same journey a few years ago. She was helping a woman in her club that had gotten notification of an abnormal mammogram. It hit me that just two short months ago, I was getting that…
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Taking Risks
“Life is short.“It’s tossed around so often that it loses weight — like background noise. Until one day, it isn’t noise anymore. It’s a roaring truth. The “C” word has a way of bringing everything into brutal focus. For someone like me who is a calculated planner, it injected a level of uncertainty that put…