"I Need to Get Something Off My Chest"
A collection of thoughts throughout my path of breast cancer and a double mastectomy with reconstruction.
So What's This Website All About?
Not Just Another Cancer Story...
My goal is to bring awareness to the things that they don’t talk to you about when you go through such traumatic experiences like cancer. How to handle questions from people at work, how to handle it when people think because you didn’t need chemo that you don’t REALLY have cancer. My hope is that people read it and feel inspired to ask more questions and have the tough conversations before treatment. So many people read my story and commented to me how they never really looked at a situation like mine through such a different light. The conversations in my head were spewed out on my posts for all to read. Only the things which most people would think are private “deep shower thoughts” were what I chose to write about. The unspeakable truths that we are all just expected to go through in silence and appear to be brave. Many people left Facebook comments to me saying how I really write like I talk, or that it sounded like I was inside their heads. That was what I was trying to convey! I didn’t want a story that was just a step-by-step journey through cancer, but a true reveal of the inner voice.
**This was once set up as a blog, but has been updated. Please start at Chapter 1**
Enjoy!
Not Just Another Cancer Story...
My goal is to bring awareness to the things that they don’t talk to you about when you go through such traumatic experiences like cancer. How to handle questions from people at work, how to handle it when people think because you didn’t need chemo that you don’t REALLY have cancer. My hope is that people read it and feel inspired to ask more questions and have the tough conversations before treatment. So many people read my story and commented to me how they never really looked at a situation like mine through such a different light. The conversations in my head were spewed out on my posts for all to read. Only the things which most people would think are private “deep shower thoughts” were what I chose to write about. The unspeakable truths that we are all just expected to go through in silence and appear to be brave. Many people left Facebook comments to me saying how I really write like I talk, or that it sounded like I was inside their heads. That was what I was trying to convey! I didn’t want a story that was just a step-by-step journey through cancer, but a true reveal of the inner voice.
**This was once set up as a blog, but has been updated. Please start at Chapter 1**
Enjoy!
