Comments on: I Try to Save Myself but Myself Keeps Slipping Away http://grovemade.wordpress.com/2008/04/17/i-try-to-save-myself-but-myself-keeps-slipping-away/ When life gives you breast cancer, make pink lemonade. Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:33:54 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Sarah S. http://grovemade.wordpress.com/2008/04/17/i-try-to-save-myself-but-myself-keeps-slipping-away/#comment-37 Sarah S. Tue, 13 May 2008 23:42:49 +0000 http://grovemade.wordpress.com/?p=38#comment-37 I just found your blog. Your writing is amazing. I felt like I was there watching you. I too have breast cancer. I was diognosed in January at the age of 41. I had a double mastectomy in February. If you have any questions I would be glad to answer them. I was reconstructed right there after my surgery. I have implants, I did not want to do the trans flap surgery. I thought it would be too hard. Anyway. Feel free to visit my blog and please if you have any questions feel free to ask! :) I just found your blog. Your writing is amazing. I felt like I was there watching you. I too have breast cancer. I was diognosed in January at the age of 41. I had a double mastectomy in February. If you have any questions I would be glad to answer them. I was reconstructed right there after my surgery. I have implants, I did not want to do the trans flap surgery. I thought it would be too hard. Anyway. Feel free to visit my blog and please if you have any questions feel free to ask! :)

]]> By: Susan Reynolds http://grovemade.wordpress.com/2008/04/17/i-try-to-save-myself-but-myself-keeps-slipping-away/#comment-36 Susan Reynolds Thu, 08 May 2008 05:12:45 +0000 http://grovemade.wordpress.com/?p=38#comment-36 I can't even speak after reading. And I thought I wrote well - and with a real voice. But you speak of this reality so clearly. We who carry the inner weight of cancer that squeezes our chest so that it aches not from the pain of cancer itself but from the pain of fear and loss and even the pain of hope and love - share something that we wish we didn't. We are young - and old - and on similar yet disimmilar paths, each of us. But there is much to share. I'm glad I found you. I'm so sorry that I you were here writing about this topic though. There are just no words to describe your bravery in taking it on. I can’t even speak after reading. And I thought I wrote well – and with a real voice. But you speak of this reality so clearly.

We who carry the inner weight of cancer that squeezes our chest so that it aches not from the pain of cancer itself but from the pain of fear and loss and even the pain of hope and love – share something that we wish we didn’t. We are young – and old – and on similar yet disimmilar paths, each of us.

But there is much to share. I’m glad I found you. I’m so sorry that I you were here writing about this topic though. There are just no words to describe your bravery in taking it on.

]]> By: trish http://grovemade.wordpress.com/2008/04/17/i-try-to-save-myself-but-myself-keeps-slipping-away/#comment-33 trish Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:14:20 +0000 http://grovemade.wordpress.com/?p=38#comment-33 Normal is relative isnt it? Normal is relative isnt it?

]]> By: Paul http://grovemade.wordpress.com/2008/04/17/i-try-to-save-myself-but-myself-keeps-slipping-away/#comment-30 Paul Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:18:42 +0000 http://grovemade.wordpress.com/?p=38#comment-30 Fitting literature you carried with you. You've experienced an illness and now have a new insight on what it really means to have cancer. If you could write a letter to your younger self, what would it say? Better yet, if you were forced to do it all over again because of a reoccurrence, what would you expect your letter back to your present self would be? It might be easy to say the answer if you know for sure what's going to happen. Undergoing a procedure could greatly decrease your chances of ever having to write that letter. But, I suspect the price of that reassurance is bothersome. It’s not just a part of your body altered, it’s an affront on your reciprocal role in society. Can you continue to play your part with the scars, changes, and most importantly, the knowledge that you are now different? If the question is simply the prior two, I would have to say yes; yes you can. The latter is yours to decide, but as an outsider looking in on your reality, I have to say I don't think anything could change what you mean to people. Fitting literature you carried with you. You’ve experienced an illness and now have a new insight on what it really means to have cancer. If you could write a letter to your younger self, what would it say? Better yet, if you were forced to do it all over again because of a reoccurrence, what would you expect your letter back to your present self would be?

It might be easy to say the answer if you know for sure what’s going to happen. Undergoing a procedure could greatly decrease your chances of ever having to write that letter. But, I suspect the price of that reassurance is bothersome. It’s not just a part of your body altered, it’s an affront on your reciprocal role in society. Can you continue to play your part with the scars, changes, and most importantly, the knowledge that you are now different? If the question is simply the prior two, I would have to say yes; yes you can. The latter is yours to decide, but as an outsider looking in on your reality, I have to say I don’t think anything could change what you mean to people.

]]> By: becky http://grovemade.wordpress.com/2008/04/17/i-try-to-save-myself-but-myself-keeps-slipping-away/#comment-29 becky Fri, 18 Apr 2008 01:18:03 +0000 http://grovemade.wordpress.com/?p=38#comment-29 I love you. Too. I love you. Too.

]]> By: Mom http://grovemade.wordpress.com/2008/04/17/i-try-to-save-myself-but-myself-keeps-slipping-away/#comment-28 Mom Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:26:45 +0000 http://grovemade.wordpress.com/?p=38#comment-28 I love you. I love you.

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