Renee Sendelbach I feel like I am and forever will be searching for a way to
explain to others that while yes, I am technically cancer free right now, my energy
and mind is not like it once was….and I don’t know if it will ever be.
Energy:
When I have it, I have it!
When I don’t, I don’t.
I can no longer make myself trudge through activities like I
once was able to do.
I have to carefully schedule my day so I don’t crash and
burn too soon.
I am like a child who gets over tired and melts down. I can’t make sense of all the emotions that bombard
me and I melt down…just like a child.
I don’t remember what it feels like to not be tired all the
time…to not know that if I laid my head down on a soft pillow, I would more
than likely fall asleep…and sleep for at least an hour.
I don’t remember what it feels like to have a headache and
just think, oh I have a headache.
My mind:
I don’t remember what it feels like to not worry
about my friends. Of course I have
always worried about their happiness, but this is a different layer of worry
with my “cancer” friends.
I don’t remember what it feels like to be able to talk about
what is going on with me without crying.
The first few times through Cancerland, I could talk about it like a
fact – it was what it was. Now, 6 years
later it has become a part of me.
I don’t remember anything.
Seriously…anything.
My short term memory is 95% gone.
You can look at me and have a full out conversation and a
few minutes later, I won’t remember it.
I make plans with others, and I will have no recollection of
it.
My goal for 2015 is to make peace with myself and all that
has happened.
To truly know it is ok if I don’t remember a lot of what
happened – there is probably a GREAT reason it is blocked.
To truly trust in the healing process and be happy and great
with where I am verses where I think I should be.
To truly commit a few
things and DO them.
Not worry about the ifs of getting sick again and just
flipping go for it.
