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FROZEN MOMENT...

Writer's picture: Jaime GillJaime Gill

Dates do more than chronicle the passing of  time, they sometimes freeze time.

 

Birth dates. Marriage dates. Graduation dates. Moving dates. Promotion dates. 

Day of the week. Month. Day. Year time. Snap shots. It’s the moment you will never forget. The moment....

Your life changes forever.


March 6th, 2024. That’s my date, the day that it really felt like the earth stopped moving.  “Unfortunately the tumor is malignant…” There were a lot of words said before and after that…but it was those words, that moment where it felt like time stopped. I was diagnosed with breast cancer. Welcome to the twilight zone. That is what I immediately felt. Is this nurse serious? Is this real?  What is she saying to me right now. I have breast cancer?? I know she just said that but she can’t be saying that. How in the world did I get breast cancer? No on in my family has breast cancer. They must be mistaken. This cant be real. But it was …and I knew it. What was I supposed to do now.   Oh, let me add more context to this moment. I was at work. So I am hearing this news while at work. How do you hear life changing information…then go back to “normal”. The answer is… YOU DON’T. You may or may not have to go back to work, but you can’t go back to normal. You are immediately different.


Is this how to get through cancer blog? This is my way trying to figure out how to get through LIFE. Breast cancer is a part of life. ..now my life. Let me warn you in advance, I use laughter and sarcasm to process pain and trauma. It helps me get through and to balance out all the days I cry. So, if I share something that seems to be strange or maybe even appropriate to you about serious moments, please know I don’t mean any offensive.

I choose joy…so there will be times where I make a joke about MY LIFE and MY SITUATIONS just to help me process. It is kind of like when comedians make fun of themselves, it helps them deal. I want to DEAL SO I CAN HEAL! I hope in my sharing of my journey through life..through this DIS-EASE of a cancer diagnosis and treatments, that there may be healing for me and for you!



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leetskidz
Jun 11, 2024

Sister, I enjoyed reading your entry, not because of what you wrote but simply because YOU WROTE!!! I love your motto “Deal so you can Heal”. I look forward to more blog entries as you take the very private but public journey of healing ❣️❣️I’m so very proud of you and I love you very much😘


P.S. I’m so mad I didn’t see this the other day🤦🏾‍♀️ I have to learn about blogs now to know to keep scrolling 🤪

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Tamica Young
Tamica Young
Jun 10, 2024

Never thought of my frozen moment until now! It is the single thing I remember like it was yesterday. Still not ready to speak a bout it, although it’s a part of life. So I appreciate you sharing yours and choosing joy to get through it.

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