Thanksgiving 🦃
This is the sixth Thanksgiving since my metastatic breast cancer diagnosis. The median life span of a metastatic breast cancer patient is approximately three years. I am ever so grateful to be here still, and I am well aware of how incredibly lucky I am to have made it this long. Since my diagnosis, not only have I gone through chemo, surgery, and IV treatment every three weeks, I have visited the local emergency room as a patient quite a few times. I have endured pain, nausea, and a myriad of other side effects. Our family was forced to move out of our home of twenty-four years to a much smaller house because we needed a smaller mortgage. Money is still so tight that I visit food pantries and hot meal distributions on a regular basis to help make ends meet. I have a wonderful friend who brings us dinner the day after treatment day, and regularly brings a bag or two of groceries along with it. Along with the hardships, some wonderful things have happened. I have reconnected wit