Cancer really sucks...

Cancer really sucks...

I started off as a student nurse in Bone Marrow Transplant in 1993.  So much chemo...so many side effects...so much sadness...I cried most of the summer.  

My mother asked me, 'is this really even healthy?!'  I told her, 'I need to help other people, like I was helped!' 

Then I was in the float pool as a Nurse, I followed one of my patients from Med-Surg, to Chemo, to High Risk Chemo to death...then I was asked if I wanted to work in the Operating Room?!  I really need some natural boundaries because I was not good at setting them for myself.  I was meant for the Operating Room.

27 years later, I am still in the Operating Room.  The routine, the structure, the controlled chaos...it was easier than being a parent.

Three people in this picture have/had cancer...Not all cancers are created equal.  Pancreatic Cancer, Ovarian Cancer and Breast Cancer are represented.  All different stages, all different treatments.  

Not one of them is fair...