This one is for all my survivors out there!!!!
Top 10 Reasons: Why being a cancer survivor is great
1. The contradictions....Getting back my hair so I can hate it all over again. oh how I love to hate you!
2. Living in a Haze....Feeling similar to those who lived through and participated in Woodstock minus the good 30 years of life I needed to have to have been there. The brain cells are lost but without the great party to go with it!
3. New found Strength...Feeling like I should be walking down the street with the Destiny's Child song, I'm a Survivor, playing in the background as I walk.
4. The medicines....Oh what fun it is to have the hot flashes, stomach pains, nausea, and mood swings. Thankful they have drugs out there that I can now BLAME all of these symptoms on every month! :)
5. The attitude...living with the attitude that if I don't want to do it, I DON'T! No more people pleasing 24/7 now its just more like 20/6!!
6. The colors...I have a license for the rest of my life to sport my favorite color in everything I own!
7. The people...They look at me different now. I was once fragile to them like a piece of glass...now they know I could kick any thing's a**!
8. The doctors...they are gone now except for when I am sick. Lucky for them I NEVER GET SICK, well...except for this stupid cancer thing...but other than that...I NEVER GET SICK!
9. The others...Love the connections with others like me...wait there are no others like me....just kidding, excited for the chance for all of us a** kicking, drug using, pink wearing tough chicks to get together and make some changes in this community! Watch out world!
10. My family...On a serious note, my love has grown where I thought it couldn't. My list of things to be thankful for has magnified by 100. I know that better or worse and in sickness or in health are NOT just words exchanged! I felt love like many may not and I am thankful, proud, and happy to have had this experience!
Holly, this is wonderful! Hope you remember me--I interviewed you for DIANE, the Curves magazine. I'm doing a piece on gratitude during adversity now for Prevention and would love to talk to you about it if you have the time. Email me at denise.foley@comcast.net.
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