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Personal Narrative: How Breast Cancer Has Changed My Life

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That thing that you experienced and was probably one of the most challenging times in your life, that.

Life after breast cancer and the road to recovery, wellness and returning back to “normal” life.

It’s not going to happen, why do we dance around the notion that it will? Women with breast cancer have had life experience and we know that your life will never be “normal” again. You will never be the same again.

We often see the words floating around like it’s this easy thing to come by “Getting back to normal life as soon as possible…” That’s great in theory.

The reality is breast cancer has changed your life forever and your “normal” is no longer normal, because there is fear, doubt and uncertainty. That is followed by gratitude that

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