Day 35 - World Cancer Day/My Golden Cancerversary in These Foolish Things

  • Feb. 4, 2025, 6:58 a.m.
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February 4. Today is World Cancer Day. It also happens to be my 4-Year Cancerversary: the day I found out I had The Big C. So that makes today my Golden Cancerversary.

I wrote this entry on a cold, gray, February 4th, 2021, during the doldrums of the 2nd year of Covid, right before the vaccine came out.

I remember this day so vividly. I was TERRIFIED. I was in shock. This would be the start of a whole year of going through the motions in a daze, with people like [Athena] and [Oscar Buzz] and Best Bud and my Dad and Maria and Jenn and all of Prosebox and my socials by my side, walking with me in this weird, weird haze.

It was a maze of doctor appointments and surgeries, of chemo classes and note-taking; and question after question rolling through my brain. We were all still masked up tight, so all I could see on the faces of my fellow cancer patients were their soulful eyes while sitting in the chemo chair. It was frightening and yet, it was one of the most beautiful times of my life…

Because I learned how caring and giving and loving my people were/are.

And I learned that THAT is what it’s all about. And with all of that support, I felt positive! I would look myself in the eye in the mirror every morning and tell myself that I was MADE to get through this - and I did! It sucked so bad, but it was an important part of my life. A cornerstone.

And I’m remembering today while I celebrate my Golden Cancerversary, quietly by myself.

I think I’ll take myself out for a treat today and try to reach out to my people.

I love all of you.

xox,
GS


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