April Fool! It's TWO's Day

     In 2006, 8 years ago today, after 24 hours in the hospital, with regular nurse pokes and the overnight "roomie-from-hell," I awoke with TWO less body parts intact (and lots of pain). Keeping the TWO might have meant the need for future life-saving surgeries. Fortunately, they were expendable parts, and my sentinel node was cancer-free. April Fool, I'm still alive. 

     Forgive me for over-emphasizing my experience, 8 years later ("Get over it," you might say). But, I spent 6 long years distancing myself as a cancer survivor and the terror-factor. Maybe I was afraid of the ominous, boomeranging (HR2 Neu -positive) cancer element, and quietness was my ploy to keep the big C from returning?