My Dance With Breast Cancer

Making peace with my deepest fear.

Photo by Victoria Strukovskaya on Unsplash

I have been terrified of cancer my whole life. I’m not sure how or when this fear originated; it doesn’t run in my family and I never knew anyone who died from it. I just knew — probably from books and movies — that cancer is insidious. It’s sneaky. It lurks. It waits. Often by the time you know you have it, it’s too late.