{"id":8549,"date":"2024-02-27T10:39:15","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T10:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wellspring.ca\/london-region\/?p=8549"},"modified":"2024-02-27T10:39:15","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T10:39:15","slug":"tracys-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wellspring.ca\/london-region\/blog\/2024\/02\/27\/tracys-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracy&#8217;s Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWell at least you have the good cancer!\u201d someone exclaimed after finding out I\u2019d been diagnosed with breast cancer at 39, less than 2 months shy of my 40<sup>th<\/sup> birthday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe good cancer? How is any of this good?\u201d I wondered. Sure, I was curious to see what I\u2019d look like bald and was secretly excited to express myself with fun headwear, but I didn\u2019t need cancer for that. I could have done that on my own.<\/p>\n<p>You see, the fall of 2019 was supposed to be the season of new beginnings, at least according to my plans. For years I\u2019d been dealing with debilitating endometriosis pain and the fall out of a desired career in music therapy due to a shoulder injury. However, two things had happened earlier that year:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I\u2019d finally found an instrument that I could play painful; and,<\/li>\n<li>A hysterectomy had resulted in a painful abdomen.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Life could now be lived and not just endured. At the top of my list was a music festival in the States and a 40<sup>th<\/sup> birthday trip to Iceland with my friends. There was just one little hiccup that I needed to deal with.<\/p>\n<p>While putting on my backpack one day, I felt something poking out near my left armpit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA cyst\u201d, I figured. I\u2019d had one before. Besides, my hormones were still out of whack from surgery.<\/p>\n<p>As it turned out, cancer had its own agenda, one that trumped mine. It substituted a birthday of northern lights, snow-capped rocks, and hot springs, with my first day of chemo. I\u2019d hardly call that good.<\/p>\n<p>From the outset of treatment, I was determined to deal with cancer \u201cthe right way.\u201d I\u2019d \u201cstay positive\u201d just like the breast cancer mantras instructed. I didn\u2019t want to let it spoil my future dreams, so I looked forward to the day I would return to work cancer-free and celebrate with my coworkers. I was pretty sure they\u2019d throw me a better party than cancer had. Cancer was just a minor detour on my path, a nuisance that I\u2019d be rid of in 9 months.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, I even started to believe I had the \u201cgood cancer\u201d since it has some of the highest survival rates. According to the Canadian Cancer Society, the 5-year net survival rate for breast cancer in women is 89%. Some of the early stages boast of a 5-year relative survival rate of 100%. The stories I was told of this friend or that relative beating breast cancer supported these statistics. Some enough I\u2019d be among those stories my friends assured me.<\/p>\n<p>Because the initial biopsies had indicated spread to the lymph nodes, my treatment plan would start with chemo, followed by surgery, radiation, and finally hormone therapy. I\u2019d be cured and could reinstate my ambitions.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, my story doesn\u2019t end with the cure for which everyone hoped and prayed. Cancer didn\u2019t care whether I did everything \u201cright\u201d or was finally getting to realize my dreams after years of setbacks.<\/p>\n<p>During surgery more lymph nodes tested positive than expected. Restaging scans revealed 3 spots on my bones. While an inconclusive biopsy allowed me to continue with radiation, the medical oncologist spoke the words no one wants to hear: \u201cmetastatic cancer \u2013 incurable.\u201d Three words that replaced my dreams of travelling and furthering my musical endeavours with dreams of funerals, coffins, and eulogies. My funeral. My coffin. My eulogy. (And a bunch of smelly flowers that I\u2019m allergic too.)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNobody better write in my obituary that I \u2018lost my battle to cancer,\u2019\u201d I remember saying to my social worker. \u201cEverybody dies at some point. Why do I have to be a loser?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I wasn\u2019t incompetent. I wasn\u2019t unloved. I wasn\u2019t unsuccessful. Sure, I still had cancer. Will always have cancer. But even if cancer is the cause of death, does that mean I lost my battle?<\/p>\n<p>I need only look at the faces of my Wellspring friends to know that isn\u2019t true. Wellspring has taught me that cancer isn\u2019t what it seems. Sure, it is ugly and painful, but there is also life. Where there is struggle, there is also courage. Where there is heartache, there is also love.<\/p>\n<p>I am thankful that amid COVID, Wellspring pivoted so quickly to online programs. My art therapy group became like family: each week we\u2019d virtually enter each other\u2019s homes, chatting about boating, cats, roosters, gardens, blood counts, and other seemingly mundane topics.<\/p>\n<p>I also met an incredible group of people in a music therapy group. Through music we have established a connection that all the miles between us cannot break\u2014threads of life stories woven by the vibrations of our voices. Sometimes I play my hammered dulcimer for the group, the melodies resonating under the weight of unmet goals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut you are fulfilling your dreams of being a music therapist,\u201d said Catherine, the music therapist. \u201cJust not in the way you envisioned.\u201d I smiled. Cancer does have a way of flipping the agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Unbelievably, 4 years have now passed since I first heard those dreaded words \u201cmetastatic \u2013 incurable.\u201d Thankfully, my new treatment regime has resulted in disease stability. I returned to work in January 2023\u2014with help from various Wellspring programs\u2014and am working full-time hours. I have energy to pursue my hobbies. However, with every three-month scan, the thought arises: \u201cIs this the time that I\u2019ll be told my cancer is no longer stable?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Originally my story had a beginning-middle-end: diagnosis-treatment-survivor. My friends could comprehend that. However, conversations ceased to be straightforward after the oncologist\u2019s reluctant metastatic declaration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen will your treatments end,\u201d someone asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNever,\u201d I replied.<\/p>\n<p>But never wasn\u2019t good enough.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNever? Don\u2019t say that. You can\u2019t think like that,\u201d came the reply.<\/p>\n<p>But it wasn\u2019t me thinking like that. The oncologist had explained that my cancer had exited the curable realm, at least as far as we understand cancer today. The goal of treatment was no longer eradication but control. I would take my new medication \u2013 a targeted therapy \u2013 every day for 3 weeks, then take 2 weeks off. Repeat <em>ad infinitum <\/em>until scans showed progression, at which time we\u2019d pray a new treatment was available. Where my original chemotherapy had an end date \u2013 a countdown to 0 from 8 cycles \u2013 I would now count up in 5-week cycles. I lost count at 20.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, my friend didn\u2019t, or couldn\u2019t, understand this. A few months later when she asked again for an end date, I\u2019m glad I didn\u2019t say \u201cwhen I die.\u201d Sometimes the truth hurts. Sometimes God doesn\u2019t grant you the miracle that you\u2019ve prayed for. Sometimes it\u2019s just easier to remain quiet.<\/p>\n<p>What my friend and those \u201cgood cancer\u201d promoters don\u2019t realize is that breast cancer survival rates are based primarily on those much older than me, those who have the opportunity to catch their cancers in earlier stages through routine screening.\u00a0 Women diagnosed prior to 40 make up less than 4% of all breast cancers and often have more aggressive cancers and poor outcomes due to later stage diagnoses. While I don\u2019t know the survival rates of this 4%, currently fewer than 1 in 4 women with metastatic breast cancer will live beyond 5 years, a stark contrast to the 9 in 10 women diagnosed with earlier stages. While I pray and the oncologist hopes that I will be one of those coveted \u201c1 in 4\u201d, the statistical odds are stacked against me.<\/p>\n<p>I have much to be grateful for \u2013 my disease spread was caught early, and my treatment has resulted in disease stability \u2013 but that must co-exist with some hard truths. I will live with cancer and scans and uncertainty for the rest of my life, however long or short. The thought of \u201closing my battle\u201d with cancer also caused me to question my actions throughout the initial treatments. Did I not fight hard enough? Was I not brave enough? Were my thoughts not positive enough? Was it my fault? Was I not enough?<\/p>\n<p>I have learned that life begets death, but death need not rule my life. As long as I\u2019m breathing, there is music to be played, trails to hike, and people to meet. 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