Sometimes getting out your feelings can be just the therapy you need. Living Beyond Breast Cancer offers a “Writing the Journey” Seasonal Writing Series that offers instruction and encouragement for women affected by breast cancer to use this creative outlet to express themselves. On this second installment of the LBBC Blog‘s Writer’s Corner, Julie Anne Mauro shares who own musing on diagnosis and LIVING with metastatic disease.
I Quit Cancer - April 30, 2012 – after an extensive month of tests and trying to get on a drug trial and finally getting on a treatment that is working.
I quit cancer
Seriously, I quit
It’s not a fun job
It certainly doesn’t pay well
And it just takes up too much of my time
I’m tired of Pink
I’m tired of Anti-pink
I’m tired of just being a number
Tired of being a patient
Tired of blood draws and infusions
Tired of looking in the mirror and not seeing myself anymore
Just the battle scars
Just the bitterness
Tired of thinking, will this be the last time I ……
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Untitled – August 7, 2012
Can you do something more than just a prayer?
But fight for me
Fight for me
Show the world that I was once there
Fight for me
Oh fight for me
Let me know that somebody really cares
Fight for me
Oh fight for me
Show me there’s more than blank and empty stares
Oh fight for me
Oh fight for me
Even when I’m weary and on my last breath
Fight for me
Please fight for me
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Julie Anne is a recent transplant to Arizona from New Jersey, married, and a mother of 2 boys (8 and 14). In July of 2009, a week before her 44th birthday, she was diagnosed with HER2+ breast cancer. After chemotherapy, a bi-lateral mastectomy and radiation, in May of 2010 her came up clean. She “beat cancer.” One month later, she found a lump in her chest wall–her cancer had spread to the lymphatic system and she was diagnosed Stage IV. Since then the cancer has spread to her lungs, but she is still here and living strong every day with Metastatic disease. Her motto is “Strength in the face of great uncertainty.” Writing has been a great release for her and a way to express herself living in a world of unknowns.
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April 13, 2013 at 12:23 pm |
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April 27, 2013 at 5:30 am |
I want to to thank you for this very good read!
! I definitely loved every bit of it. I have you bookmarked to check out new stuff you post…