This blog was supposed to be about my journey into the Peace Corps. At least that is where or how I chose the name for the blog. Finding my voice, was about my search for myself and what I am about. You see , in school when you are writing a paper the teacher would say something like "who is your audience?" or something like that. I have tried several times to write a blog and would stumble as I didn't know who my audience was or should be. I wasn't sure what kind of blog I wanted to write, just that I do want to share parts of my life with people. However there are other parts I don't want to share. But one sometimes has very little control over who reads these things. So I will try not to use real names but I imagine at some point I will give that up and not care anymore who reads what. Or at least , that is my hope.
So here goes. This week I was diagnosed with Her2+/neu breast cancer. As you can imagine , I was pretty shocked. I am 40 years old and have been a pretty healthy person all of my life.
So my current Peace Corps goals are on hold, there may be a chance in the future depending on if I can stay cancer free over a certain amount of time, but I am more focused right now on just getting better, then seeing what happens.
The week after next I am going in for a mastectomy. Just one breast so far. The surgeon will also check and remove lymph nodes for any sign the cancer has or is starting to spread from my breast. Other treatments haven't been fully discussed yet. My surgeon said that most likely since I am younger that I will be getting chemo.
I am keeping this blog now for myself as a journal to record the process of what I am currently going through.
Maybe along the way I will find my voice.
