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February 17, 2007

Life Day

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Yesterday marked two years since I was diagnosed at age 30 with Ovarian Cancer stage 2C. Well, actually, I didn’t get the staging info back until a week later… but 2.16 is the day I had the surgery where they discovered the “cyst” was cancer.

I celebrated the day as best I could despite the fact that I’ve got a killer head cold.

You have cancer. We’ve all heard those words… it is why we are here.

I decided to celebrate this day rather than think of all the pain it caused. The day didn’t cause the pain and heartache. The diagnosis didn’t cause the pain and heartache. The cancer caused the pain and heartache. The diagnosis started the healing.

If I never got diagnosed… I would not be here. Plain and simple.

Cancer changed me. It changes all of us. These past two years have been probably the happiest two years of my life. I’m much calmer now. I have got this wonderful gift called perspective. I know how strong I am. My body has recovered and is stronger physically than it ever has been. I savor life in a way that I never had. I’m grateful for all of this.

The past two years have brought me so many amazing experiences. I’ve had the opportunity to have so much support from friends and family. So much that I think there were times that it actually made me levitate with appreciation. I’ve summited mountains, literally and figuratively. I’ve overcome. I’ve triumphed.

So, I celebrated my life yesterday. It is like a birthday but different. I call it my Lifeday. There will be many more lifedays for me.

I wish you all to have many happy Lifedays of your own.

I’ve decided this will be the day that I launch my fund raising campaign. When I was sick, I vowed to myself that I would make people know about this disease the way everyone (thankfully) knows about breast cancer. Last year I led a team that raised over $26K and held many local awareness raising events. This year we are going back. There is no time to rest.
www.bittergraivty.com/samantha

Posted on February 17, 2007 at 2:34:50 AM by Sam ( Life Day, 4 comments)

Here is the link: www.bittergravity.com/samantha. The one above had a spelling error.

Samantha – This is such a wonderful post! I had tear in my eyes at how positive it is, so beautiful. I can tell you have already done a lot for this cause and so thankful that you are continuing to raise awareness. Happy Life Day!

Posted on February 17, 2007 at 8:16:13 AM by jill

Let me try this again. Samantha you could delete my last comment since I mess up. thanks!

Here is the link: www.bittergravity.com/samantha. The one above had a spelling error.

Samantha – This is such a wonderful post! I had tear in my eyes at how positive it is, so beautiful. I can tell you have already done a lot for this cause and so thankful that you are continuing to raise awareness. Happy Life Day!

Posted on February 17, 2007 at 8:19:52 AM by jill

Happy life to you, Happy Life to you.

Sending more Love your way Sherri

Posted on February 17, 2007 at 1:04:45 PM by karlak

Yeah! Great website! You’ve been an inspiration to me.

Posted on February 17, 2007 at 7:47:38 PM by tanya