After The Cure: A personal essay on a personal journey
October 1, 2008
Here’s an article I wrote for the Philadelphia Women’s Journal on my healing from cancer. It was the first time I wrote about my experience in its entirety. Writing it was emotional but therapeutic.
I hope anyone who reads it walks away understanding there is a big difference between curing and healing. Curing a disease is stopping the physical deterioration. Healing is finding the meaning and the strength to use trauma constructively…without losing your sense of humor about the whimsical nature of life.
