Meditations & Radiation
“You have cancer.”
When you hear those words, every other word spoken in the next 10 minutes seems garbled, and you enter an echo-chamber where you hear nothing but those three words.
After hearing my diagnosis, I immediately went into fight mode, which may have also been denial mode. I remember thinking: “Not me, not now! I will do what it takes to survive this. I’ve overcome other threats, and I will not be defined by this.”