This post discusses sensitive topics and may be triggering for some readers.

I don’t think I heard a word after she said, ‘You have cancer ’.

As my husband and I sat across from my breast surgeon, I’m pretty sure I went straight into shock. The world continued to spin on its axis but it was as though everything around me went blurry and out of focus.

As I reflect back on that day, there are so many things I wish I’d known then. The kind of things you can only glean through experience and time.

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