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Dear Sherry,
You will get to that point, unbelievable though it seems now. Once chemo is over with, and radiation and cancer is no longer quite a full-time job, then whether out of weariness or optimism or pragmatism, the mind simply refuses to whirl constantly around the one topic. Tests show, for instance, that little aches in the breast are not a new tumor, that a pull under the rib-cage is not liver metastasis and gradually one actually internalizes this and can talk oneself through and out of panic. Anxiety can still erupt from time to time, but life does return - not to the pre-cancer garden of eden innocence and certainty - but to something very livable.
just hang in there, keep writing to this site and you'll get through it all.
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