“I am so ready to make the transition from someone with breast cancer to someone fighting breast cancer. Tomorrow morning, bright and early, I begin chemotherapy – assuming the heart ultrasound and blood tests say I’m healthy. I find the idea of being in ‘excellent health’ and having cancer at the same time rather ironic.”
“The idea of a plastic surgeon is foreign to me. I remember a friend commenting that she thought I was moving to “silicone valley” rather than “Silicon Valley”, referring to the cosmetic surgeries that are common in Hollywood. At the mention of a plastic surgeon, the vision of breast enhancing cosmetic surgery floats through my mind.”
“At this stage, every ache causes me to question, then dismiss cancer. My first thought is, Is this cancer? Has it spread? … and then my logical brain jumps in and says no, this is not cancer … so in some ways, everything feels like cancer, yet nothing feels like cancer.”
“I don’t know what it means to be a cancer survivor. I am a cancer warrior – I’m in treatment, I am living each day – but what does it mean to survive?”
I never knew I’d want to be a breast cancer survivor brings you into Becky’s world as a young breast cancer survivor. Becky shares her experiences with treatment starting the day after she first heard the words “you have breast cancer”. Throughout her treatment, she explains her thought processes as she grapples with life altering treatment decisions: which chemotherapy regime? to reconstruct or not reconstruct?
Humorous at times, serious at times, this memoir will have you laughing and crying as Becky shares her feelings but also what she is learning as she discovers what it means to be a breast cancer survivor.
