No such thing as a routine day
I made this spread from a start in Wide Open, a card set by Randi Feuerhelm-Watts. The bridge reminds me of the Golden Gate Bridge, near where I live, and the sentiment fits my situation of living with metastatic breast cancer (another way of saying, living on borrowed time).
When I was diagnosed I was sure I'd never make it to the end of the year and no one gave me reason to believe otherwise. Months later I was dealing with treatment failure and an oncologist whose mantra was, "You have a very aggressive cancer, you have a very aggressive cancer, you have a very aggressive cancer" until I wrote him a letter and begged him to drop it.
Treatment change, a calmer onc -- and a lot of good fortune. All that happened six years ago - but the learning of the time stays with me. Treasure each day.
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