The profile on her blog reads: Living in London. Working in ads. Currently undergoing treatment for Breast Cancer. And that about sums it up for this woman whose life has become hijacked by cancer. That's the way it goes. Cancer strikes and life revolves around it for so much longer than we'd like. The 30-something Anne-Marie Weeden writes in a recent blog post:
I was genuinely confident at the beginning of this process that the whole chemo thing should not affect life too much. And in the first three treatments it didn't really. But the last three have just escalated in terms of the challenges they have thrown my way. They said it would be cumulative but I didn't realise it would accumulate on such a scale. I'd say the last two treatment cycles have been at least ten times as hard as the first one.
Hers is an insightful look at living with cancer. Like most, the story is sad, yet inspiring -- and truly worth a read for anyone interested in the strength of the human spirit.
1. I agree with Ann marie that chemo is NOT something you do "on the side" while your life goes on as normal. Who started this rumor? I did not breeze through it either.
Posted at 8:57AM on Sep 9th 2007 by Meg Wolff