So, we just recently found out a friend of ours, she’s 3 years younger than me, has breast cancer. In both breasts. And they are different types of cancer, although I don’t really know exactly what that means.
She is going to have a double mastectomy.
She seems to be handling it pretty well, or at least externally she is. I don’t even know how she is dealing with that without absolutely freaking out.
She is a paramedic and has worked in health care for her entire career, so I guess she’s seen people deal with this before and knows it can be fought and a recovery is possible. But damn. I just feel like we are too young to be dealing with this kind of shit, but I guess not. I mean cancer happens to old people right? I don’t feel old, but I guess we are getting to the point where the invincibility is starting to wear off.
Cancer sucks.
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- Okole
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