Hazel

I met the most inspiring woman this week. Her name is Hazel. She is a beautiful, radiant, cancer survivor with a true gusto for life. She recovered from a brain cancer that had spread to her spinal cord, and is doing incredibly well. So well in fact, that she had a few things to say that made me feel so good inside, my whole week was made! Hazel mentioned that during cancer (and even after) we are not really "ourselves." Due to this fact, it is really important to be easy on ourselves. If you find yourself sleeping in til' noon (I can raise my hand here), that's perfectly ok! If your body doesn't look quite the same as before the whole cancer ordeal, just let your body be. If you're napping all the time, go ahead and embrace those naps. If you don't have the energy to talk on the phone, don't. You see, you can address all that stuff once you move past the cancer. Don't let anyone guilt you into doing things you do not want to or try and tell you that you are lazy. Impossible!! If you're fighting to live, you're fighting really hard. Really, really hard. Healing is a full time job. So just let yourself be. Now is not the time to judge or be hard on oneself. And Hazel mentioned one more thing that I thought was really important, she said "It ain't over til it's over." How true that rings. Don't ever give up or lose hope. Nothing is ever over until it really is over. So keep your chin up and fight, fight, fight!!!