Sunday, June 15, 2008

Life is good

It's summer. It's a good time to be alive. I'm still learning what it means to be a breast cancer survivor. Today I'm thinking it's all about being happy about who I am right now, right here. Alive and well.

Life is good.

Thursday, June 5, 2008

Choices

Most of us consider ourselves lucky because we are provided with the opportunity to make choices in our lives. On the other hand, some of us don't feel we have many choices. Then, some of us feel that the choices we have are not really good ones. And, some of us feel like we have too many choices and get overwhelmed.

Sometimes we make choices that are good for us, and other times we make choices that we wish, in hindsight, we had not made. No matter ... the fact is that having the opportunity to make choices is really a wonderful thing.

I've been thinking a lot about making choices lately, because now that I am on the road to recovery, I am looking at my life and the opportunities and challenges that come my way in a very different way than I did before cancer. While I was in my treatment phase, I was given the opportunity to choose, under my doctor's guidance, my treatment plan. I also had the opportunity to choose my attitude about my cancer and my treatment. Pretty much after that, all other choices were really dictated to me by how my body felt on any given day.

Now I have a little more energy. My choices are now dictated by how much time there is in a day and how much I need to get done.

Having choices can be a challenge, but having the opportunity to choose is a gift.