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This quote rings so true to me "living with a terminal disease is like walking on a tightrope over an insanely scary abyss. But that living without disease is also like walking on a tightrope over an insanely scary abyss, only with some fog or cloud cover obscuring the depths a bit more - sometimes the wind blowing it off a little, sometimes a nice dense cover "

"In treatment, the wrongness I feel in my life is a wrongness reflected in my body... And spending my days at the cancer center: it's something I'm part of. I make sense there somehow. A lot more sense than I make at the gym or the elementary school or the grocery store or work meetings - or all the other places I've sat outside of for too long in my car taking deep breaths as I attempt to return to civilian life"

Life doesn't stop. The day to day keeps going and you have to go through it. If you stop to get emotional, you will break. I'm in the same place... Marriage, mother to young kid(s), working.... And so many moments in this book so far have resonated. I wish I could stop time and process it without feeling like I'm watching You go through the motions thinking it'll be done, you'll be fine... Then find out it came back