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When do you ladies that have been diagnosed and finished treatment consider your CANCERVERSARY to be? Is it from the date of your initial diagnosis, your surgery, the last treatment, the day you get your first post-treatment cancer-free mammogram ... those variables could change things greatly. What date do you use to mark the milestones?
Oh @A MyBCTeam Member, your post brought tears to my eyes. My cancer could return any time, too. Any one of us can have that damn cancer return any day..... hell, it may still be floating around somewhere in me RIGHT NOW. But I don't feel it... I feel great. I'm alive. I'm breathing. And dammit I'm going to celebrate every day... you should too, my friend!
Such great comments and dialogue! We all look at, and answer this question differently — we all feel different dates matter— there are so many days for me to celebrate milestones and so I just try to look at every day as a gift and celebrate the small and the big things! I guess for me, the day I got the phone call “ you have cancer”, is probably the day I celebrate the most. It was that day forward, that I became a fighter. Quite honestly, it took my over a year to see this, but now it’s clear to me.
Hugs to all of you! May you all find something to celebrate each and every day!
That is just the thing with this cancer journey. Once it has visited, it may return at any time with any diagnosis type and anywhere. We all live with this fear and it is terrifying. But every day we pass another milestone, every test that comes back negative (clear and cancer-free) and everyday that we get with our families, every breath we take and every difference we try to make is a small victory to celebrate. We have all had cancer here ... for some it has been a very rough journey like @A MyBCTeam Member and @A MyBCTeam Member to name a few ... and for others (like me) it has been a more manageable and not as hard road. But no one is guaranteed another day on this earth (cancer or not) and we have to make the best of whatever we have left. So I guess no matter if you feel the cancer is behind you never to return or you feel scared every single day of that possibility, you still should celebrate that you're alive and remember that every day is the first day of the rest of your life.
Although I remember each and every day of my journey and consider each one significant in its own way, I chose my last day of Radiation. I was diagnosed on June 10, 2015. I'd had lumpectomy surgery on July 2, 2015 and started radiation on August 5, 2015. My last day of rads was September 22, 2015. The first day of Autumn and one of my favorite days prior to cancer so I felt compelled to use that date.
I had a clear mammogram 6 months later and breathed a sigh of relief.
I celebrate different anniversaries. Surgery, end of chemo and end of treatment. I ended up deciding on end of surgery as my cancerversary and am a 7+ year survivor.
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