Fear of Recurrence – Still Rising

When you want a doctor’s opinion

One of the strangest things about being a cancer survivor is that I never know which doctor to see for what. If I have a new, strange symptom, do I go to my primary care physician, a specialist, or my oncologist to rule out a recurrence? Early on, I felt like since my treatment hadContinue reading “When you want a doctor’s opinion”

I tried to move on but a fear of recurrence lingered

Before treatment ended, I remember being so confident that my life was about to go back to normal and I wouldn’t be the type of person who worried about recurrence. Well, I quickly learned that neither of those things were true. There was no returning to my previous version of normal, just this ‘new normal’Continue reading “I tried to move on but a fear of recurrence lingered”