The whole time I had cancer growing inside me, it was painless and I’m glad for that… From what I’ve read, if your cancer gets to the point where it hurts, it’s a very bad thing. That said, I never hurt until they “fixed” me. Now I know the way the weather is going to go before and more accurately than the weatherman, but that’s okay.
A nerve was removed and I can’t feel the skin on the back of my calf, which makes for adventures in shaving and there’s nothing quite like having an itch, but being unable to feel yourself scratch it… But that’s okay.
Radiation has made my leg so dry that there are times that it scabs over, but that’s okay, too.
It’s all okay because I have a working leg and am living a wonderful life, despite cancer. I can live with pain. I can live with numbness. I can live with dryness. I’ve been living with this for close to ten years…
I can live with all of this because I’m alive to live with it. Pain hurts less when you look at the alternative.
It’s amazing what we can live with!
“Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.” ~Erica Jong, How to Save Your Own Life, 1977
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