I’ve realized that although I have a ridiculous (adverse) sensitivity to chemo, I also have a new and wonderfully heightened sensitivity to sights, smells and sounds (the sense of taste is long gone, a casualty of chemo).
I notice things. I pay attention. I walk slower. I take photographs. These are the Silver Linings of my experience with breast cancer.
In the event that you haven’t yet seen it, I’m super excited to introduce you to a fabulous Silver Lining cookbook: If It Makes You Healthy: More than 100 Delicious Recipes Inspired by the Season. This is a cookbook written by Sheryl Crow after her breast cancer diagnosis led her to gain interest in the nutrition of her food. Enjoy!
Today is Chemo #6. It was supposed to have been my final dose for breast cancer; however, since I reacted so horrifically (yes, I am UNDERexaggerating it), my chemotherapy regimen has changed, but not without finding some Silver Linings along the way.
Every time I feel like I hit the pit of chemo and breast cancer despair, I find a Silver Lining. Every single time it is a SL that brings me back and makes me smile. Gives me perspective.
This has been a week of ups and downs (as is consistently the case with breast cancer).
However, when I look back on the week (in photographs), I ultimately feel happy and peaceful because Silver Linings always seem to shine through.
While my reaction to the last round of chemotherapy has been better (Silver Lining), the nausea has been much more acute. What this means is that I have nausea everyday, all day, but sometimes it feels particularly bad. Well, today, that pesky nausea upped the ante.
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The Tender Bar by J.R. Moehringer is a wonderful book that has added a generous Silver Lining to my library and taken my mind off the nausea of FBC.
Because traditional, Western medicine has not been particularly effective with my gnarly chemotherapy side effects, I’ve been open to trying and incorporating all kinds of alternative treatments on my breast cancer treatment train.
Hope you are having a Silver-Lined weekend!
