by Carolyn Thomas ❤️ Heart Sisters (on Blue Sky)
A quotation I like a lot (thank you, Bruce Springsteen!) is this: “You get used to anything. Sooner or later, it becomes your life.” As regular readers already know, I’ve been a heart patient for a long time, ever since surviving a misdiagnosed widow-maker heart attack in 2008 – enough time to really get used to the idea of living with heart disease.
In fact, that’s 17 years of getting used to saying things like “my cardiologist”.
In 2009, I launched this Heart Sisters blog. That’s 16 years of getting used to Sunday morning deadlines and reader comments.
Then in 2017, Johns Hopkins University Press published my book “A Woman’s Guide to Living with Heart Disease” That’s eight years of getting used to publishers, editors, book reviews – and one unhinged (now former) publicity manager.
But on April 1st, I learned that the lump I’d found on my right breast while showering was a malignant tumor (called invasive ductal carcinoma – the most common form of breast cancer, accounting for 80 per cent of all breast cancer diagnoses).
So far, that’s only 75 days of getting used to being a cancer patient. That makes me a rank amateur. No wonder I feel so utterly overwhelmed. Continue reading “75 days – but who’s counting?” →
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