Cristina's Corner
From Diagnosis to a Passionate Purpose
We focus so much on surviving cancer that the folks living with cancer are often left behind.
August 25, 2019
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We focus so much on surviving cancer that the folks living with cancer are often left behind.
….living with a life-threatening illness, makes me focus more on how I’m spending my time and energy. Life is short, and not to be wasted.
This fight would be different because I had God leading me
SEVEN medical professionals told me to terminate my pregnancy. WE refused.
My doctors never mentioned I was high risk because my mother received her initial diagnosis in her late fifties.
When you get cancer you think your life is over but for me my life has begun. I have cancer cancer doesn’t have me!
With only a one in five chance of surviving beyond five years, I’m so blessed to still be here thriving, 15 years after my initial diagnosis.
It was after I started chemotherapy, that I was at home one day healing from the treatment and I realized I was thankful.
My dream for over ten years, had finally become a reality and for the second time, cancer was taking it away from me.
So, here I am, two years out since getting the all clear, and now I’m faced with one more hurdle… total hysterectomy.
