Another Year Cancer Free
Last month I had the boobs behaving badly squished and scanned. Never a fun day but I have discovered that since having breast cancer medical staff are a lot more gentle and concerned with how you are. Which means instead of almost passing out (my usual yearly state on boob squish day) I was fine and barely felt a thing.
Results came back good. Nothing new or different and the surgical area is better than expected.
I’m still on hormone therapy. Will be for at least another 3 years. Not sure how I feel about that with all the side effects I’m getting but I’m taking it one day at a time for now.
I don’t do New Year’s resolutions because who said you have to wait for the new year to change something or stick to something or be better at something?
I’ve already started my ‘resolutions’. I have a few but on a personal front it’s mainly eating better and moving more. Professionally it’s being more organized and more strict(?) with my work hours.
I let my diagnosis pull me out of a lot of things. In the beginning that was fine, I was recovering and there were health issues both physical and mental but now I feel as though I’m in a better place in both to get back to work and life.
Balance is always a struggle and I have never noticed it more than in the last two years.
It was either life or work, never both at the same time but now I’m managing to balance them and it feels great.
I feel great.
There are still moments when I feel overwhelmed and want to hide under the couch but those aren’t as often and I’m more aware of them as well as finding ways to deal with them.
The easiest way is to not overload myself to begin with. Which everyone should do but it seems as though we expect ourselves to do more and more when that’s not possible even without a cancer diagnosis.
As this season closes and we move into the next I wish everyone a safe and happy end of year.
May 2024 be better and brighter for all.