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I was meant to have seventeen rounds of Keytruda. I had seven.
Last week I officially told my team I was done. No more immunotherapy. And the strangest part? I wasn't more scared of the cancer coming back than I was of the next side effect.
That's a big thing to say out loud. So let's talk about i...
I got three tattoos this year and I didn't choose a single one of them.
Not the fun kind. Not the "I've always wanted this" kind. These three were part of my external beam radiation treatment for stage three cervical cancer, and I didn't even know they were coming until the day they showed up.
If ...
Imagine this. You've spent six months in the trenches. Chemo. Radiation. Blood tests. Scans. Steroids. Side effects you wouldn't wish on anyone. You've dragged yourself to appointments, kept your kids' lives as normal as possible, kept your businesses running, and somehow kept getting back up.
And ...