Tag: Breast cancer

The “not wonderful” new diagnosis I didn’t see coming

~ Carolyn Thomas ~ 45 Comments

by Carolyn Thomas   ❤️   Heart Sisters (on Blue Sky)

If you’re me, and you live with a medical condition as serious as heart disease (which is women’s #1 killer worldwide, by the way), you may start believing that this is it. This will be the cause of death listed in your obituary some day. This is the diagnosis that kick-started  your tests, medical procedures, follow-up appointments, more tests, scary symptoms, prescription cardiac meds you’ll take for the rest of your life, and writing these Sunday morning Heart Sisters articles.

But as the saying goes, “Life is what happens when we’re busy making other plans.”  And last month, LIFE happened to me. . .
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Just living life. No awesomeness required.

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I’m always chuffed (as my Brit friends would say) to run into an patient essay that’s so good, I wish I’d written it – one that captures the essence of what I’ve been thinking all along but somehow haven’t quite gathered those thoughts as succinctly. Although Barbara Westfall wrote this for her blog Pilgrim125 as a woman living with Stage IV breast cancer, she tells a familiar story that spoke to me as a heart patient, too.

She writes about those magical moments when we just try to live life as if we didn’t have a life-altering medical condition, thank you very much, no matter what our diagnosis. With her kind permission, I’m sharing it with you. Thank you, Barbara!

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