The humorist/social commentator in the local newspaper ran a column today about being cancer free and feeling his energy return.
A number of the cancer blogs I follow have grappled with the problem of life after cancer.
The battle against cancer is so intense and consuming that it tends to push other interests to the sidelines. A lot of life after cancer is refocusing your life.
Well the new cancer has saved me from that struggle. Of course I still need to strengthen myself and seek to increase the boundaries of my universe. To be as good a friend as the friendship I receive. To try to organize my thoughts and memories so disrupted by cancer and the intensive chemo I received.
The National Cancer Institute has a booklet on this:
http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/life-after-treatment
Another issue is that I used to be more physically active and fit. Now I walk with a noticeable limp because my left leg muscles are not strong enough to support a normal gait. I bob and wave a bit when I walk. From my perspective " I get to walk" from the outside, I appear handicapped.
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I am one of the few people in the world who have had two primary cancers, bone cancer and breast cancer, at the same time. I am also the rare 60+ woman with bone cancer. I have survived both since August 2008.
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