When my treatment ended, people who hadn’t been through cancer expected me to bounce right back to who I was before. “What do you mean you’re different now?” they’d ask. But as I reach the 5-year milestone, I’ve been reflecting on the last 6 and a half years of my breast cancer journey — and how much it has transformed me.
Life after cancer forced me to reassess my relationships and set important boundaries with loved ones. Will I ever completely stop thinking about cancer? No — it will always be part of me. But my faith has taught me to surrender my fears to God. If I allow myself to dwell on cancer constantly, I’ll miss the chance to truly live.