It is easy to get so involved with your cancer journey that you forget to take time for the life you had before cancer became a factor in your life. Like going to dinner and cancer not come up. Like planning out your week without a doctor appointment to work around. Like planning for your future without a recurrence coming into mind. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Take your life back one moment at a time. Go to dinner with friends and/or family and set guidelines of no cancer chatter. Or go get a mani/pedi with a friend and make a rule of no cancer talk. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Cancer will always be in the back of my mind but there are little things I can do ((like a girls beach weekend)) where it does
I found this on social media and it literally stopped me in my tracks. There is so much power in this message so I thought I would share it here. I do not know who wrote it. But here it is... An elephant and a dog became pregnant at the same time. Three months down the line the dog gave birth to six puppies. Six months later the dog was pregnant again and in nine months it gave birth to another dozen puppies. The pattern continued.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ On the eighteenth month the dog approached the elephant questioning, "Are you sure that you are pregnant? We became pregnant on the same date and I have given birth three times to a dozen puppies and they have now grown to become big dogs, ye
