Survivor of what? Here’s a start:

• 16 year verbally and emotionally abusive marriage to a sociopath

• 3 year tumultuous divorce

• Undifferentiated Pleomorphic Sarcoma (rare form of aggressive Bone Cancer) diagnosis

• Papillary and Ductal Cell Carcinoma (Breast Cancer) diagnosis

• Cancer Surgeries (Pelvic Resection and Breast Lumpectomy)

• 18 weeks of Chemotherapy

• 10 Blood Transfusions

• 6 weeks of daily Conventional Radiation (Bone)

• 4 weeks of daily Accelerated Radiation (Breast)

• Severe Chemo Induced Peripheral Neuropathy (CIPN) of the feet and legs

I share all of this not for sympathy or to receive accolades for my strength, but as an encouragement that someone else may understand what you are going through and has made it to the other side. To give you hope that you too can get through whatever hard and paralysingly frightening things you are facing today.