{"id":418,"date":"2023-07-09T16:35:54","date_gmt":"2023-07-09T20:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inmyhead.com\/wordpress\/fcancer\/?p=418"},"modified":"2023-07-09T16:35:54","modified_gmt":"2023-07-09T20:35:54","slug":"summer-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inmyhead.com\/wordpress\/fcancer\/2023\/07\/09\/summer-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A week ago, the area around my scar started hurting. I didn\u2019t know what to make of this, as my surgery was months ago. After talking to a couple of people and posting in my local breast cancer group (412 Thrive<\/a>), I got my answer: it\u2019s the nerves regenerating. Which is a good thing, but man, is it painful! Thankfully, after a few days, the pain went away. But I\u2019m fully expecting it to come back. One person said she has it every day and her doctor told her she could feel it up to two years. Another person said her doctor told her it would be \u201cyears.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My question now is, why wasn\u2019t I told about this\u203d Chalk this up to yet another detail that I had to find out on my own. Thank goodness for other survivors!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking of, there\u2019s one in particular that helped me throughout my journey. Kari and I met through Thrive, when we found out our journeys started around the same time. Kari was a little ahead of me, and had her surgery before chemo instead of after like me. We texted throughout, checking on each other regularly and complaining about our side effects, which felt never-ending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks to Facebook, we discovered that we were mutual friends with a Temple family whose son Jack is the same age as Doran. Kari\u2019s daughter is a graduating senior as well. Yesterday, we went to Jack\u2019s graduation party, where Kari and I finally got to meet in person after all this time. \u201cWe\u2019re twins!\u201d she proclaimed. You can tell by the picture that she\u2019s right!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Kari<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

My taste buds are not 100% but I\u2019d say they\u2019re maybe at least 90% back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m getting closer to finalizing my tattoo. I think I have a design (thanks to my mother-in-law\u2019s help), but have to figure out sizing and placement. Initially, I wanted to avoid the pink ribbon because it\u2019s so problematic. The thing is, it really is emblematic of breast cancer. You see a pink ribbon, and you know exactly what it means. So at this point, my design includes a pink ribbon\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you know of any inspirational lines about strength or resilience, like Maya Angelou\u2019s \u201cStill I rise,\u201d let me know! I LOVE this quote and would love to use that too, but it\u2019d be appropriation since she wrote that poem about slavery. I\u2019ve been told it\u2019s in songs as well, but I\u2019m not sure which came first \u2013 and Maya Angelou\u2019s poem is definitely the most synonymous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A week ago, the area around my scar started hurting. I didn\u2019t know what to make of this, as my surgery was months ago. After talking to a couple of people and posting in my local breast cancer group (412 Thrive), I got my answer: it\u2019s the nerves regenerating. Which is a good thing, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmyhead.com\/wordpress\/fcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmyhead.com\/wordpress\/fcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmyhead.com\/wordpress\/fcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmyhead.com\/wordpress\/fcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmyhead.com\/wordpress\/fcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inmyhead.com\/wordpress\/fcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":420,"href":"https:\/\/inmyhead.com\/wordpress\/fcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions\/420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmyhead.com\/wordpress\/fcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmyhead.com\/wordpress\/fcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmyhead.com\/wordpress\/fcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}