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“ I am sorry to tell you, but you have cancer…“ I’m not sure I heard the rest. The “c” word. We never in a million years think we will hear someone telling us this, right? For me, my reaction was shock, stillness, fear, even nausea… like it was a bad dream, but it’s real life.
Our families are deeply affected. My poor dad was a “retired” physician, in name only. In real life, he “doctored” all of us still. So he was the one who received my breast MRI even before my doctor did. As a result, he had the unfortunate responsibility of informing his daughter that she had a messy MRI, full of cancerous lobes and one big malignant tumor.
His tone was telling of the seriousness of the matter. He wasn’t without compassion, but rather matter of fact. Hearing his voice, normally upbeat and happy, was in stark contrast to his resonance this time. This was probably the scariest thing to me. My parents were coming hot off of an arduous year with my sister’s breast cancer debacle just three years prior. Life was almost back to “normal” for them, albeit a new normal, but now it seemed, it would be my turn, round two.
My oncologist, who I deeply respected told me point blank that the next year was going to be a difficult year, and assuming that everything went well, I would be “cured.” Oh, how I hung onto that word.
I devoted myself to learn as much as I could, reading many books and gaining much knowledge talking and listening to various cancer experts of health and wellness. I became certified as a Health and Wellness Coach, personal trainer and ACLM certified coach (american college of lifestyle medicine). I learned the value of nutrition, becoming certified through a wonderfully intense course, offered as Dr. T. Colin Campbell’s e`cornel Plant Based Nutrition.
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Breast Cancer Coach focusing on health & wellness for breast cancer survivors and women looking to prevent breast cancer. 13+ year stage 3 breast cancer survivor with my proven CKP framework.
