Back at it - after major pause in planning due to cancer

I'm so happy you're feeling better and hope your cancer doesn't come back! You're such a strong and brave inspiration

I’m so happy for you!! You are so awesome! Plan on girl!! Hope you get everything you want and more! You deserve it! ❤️☺️

Wow. So happy you are in the clear. I hope you can thoroughly enjoy the planning now. All the best.

I’m so happy that you are on the road to recovery - congrats for that!!!

I get your fear and hesitation, believe me. The moment you hear that “c” word is like no other moment. Surreal doesn’t begin to describe it. Surely they’re not talking about YOU??!? I was diagnosed with breast cancer a month before my wedding. A month! Talk about poor timing! We didn’t tell anybody until afterwards because we didn’t want that to be the prevailing thought (‘ooh, the poor thing!’) and instead wanted it to be the happiest, dancingest party of the year - and it WAS!!!! 🎉

Although I had to go through the biopsies and MRIs and oncology appointments during the weeks and days leading up to the big day, I was able to put off surgery until right after our return from the honeymoon, which was good. But you know what? As odd as it sounds, maybe it wasn’t really such poor timing....instead of letting the cancer be a distraction to our happy time, I think we made our happy time be a distraction to the cancer. We just went through all of medical motions because we had to, but we were otherwise in such good moods because of everything RIGHT that was going on in our lives, it would’ve been a shame to let it be spoiled. The nurses in the breast care center would joke with me that I always came in with such a smile on my face and my response would be.....hey, any one of us could get hit by a bus tomorrow or six months from now - if that happens, do you want your last days to have been spent in a bad mood, or sad? No way - I want to have LAUGHED as much as possible....every single day!

Two surgeries later, I got the news last week that the margins are clear (= no more surgery!) and NO chemo necessary!!! I still need 6 weeks of radiation and a prolonged prescription, but I’ll take that trade - couldn’t possibly be happier! I’m not a doctor so I can’t say there’s any medical correlation to good, positive thinking but.....my gut tells me it’s so. I hate that you’re going through this, I really really do, but, if you can try to let the good influence the bad and not the other way around, I just know you’ll be better for it. Good luck in your recovery - wishing you all the BEST!!! 👍

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Wow! What an ordeal you have gone through as well...! I really appreciate you sharing your experience with me.

Overall I am fairly upbeat about all of this, because it definitely could be so much worse in so many ways. And it sounds like your attitude is phenomenal which definitely does help healing, I agree!

Glad to hear things are looking positive for you and thanks again for sharing!!