“Seven Reasons
to be Grateful with Breast Cancer…”
“Life has been a whirlwind since my last
post. I've gone to countless appointments with teams of doctors to discuss and
decide my course of action. I have met with my professors, supervisors, and
colleagues to determine how I will proceed through my program…”
Yada
yada ya. All true, but this is not all there is to my story.
These
are some of the beginnings of blog posts that I have started and not completed
over the past couple months. However as much as I had wanted to journal, I had
not written down a single word beyond my first post that I felt confident and
comfortable sharing with the digital world – permanently. This blog post is an attempt to get back to my story.
My
initial goal of my blog was to chronicle the details of my life as I pursued a
Ph.D. I thought that this would change after my breast cancer diagnosis. But
since that day, I have spent quite a bit of time trying to make sense of my
experience and to plan my response to it. I have evaluated everything that I
have experienced and been privy to over the course of my life – my opportunities,
privileges, challenges, relationships, responsibilities, decisions – trying to
trace how I got to this place of transition and trying to plot how I can move
from it.
In
terms of sharing my experience with others, I pondered what aspects of this
experience I would be willing and able to share. I asked myself, how do I
represent my own experience? How and when do I encourage others? When do I tell
the truth, and when should I stay silent? What things are important?
As
of now, I’m still working on these answers! What I do know is that I have A
story to tell. And this post is what I needed to pull me out of my writer’s
block and break the ice. J
Sip with me.
No comments:
Post a Comment