Why Cancer Was the Beginning of My Life, Not the End
āIt is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.ā ~Mahatma Gandhi
Cancer.
Iāll never forget the moment the words fell from my doctorās mouth. In one fell swoop, the āperfectā persona that Iād spent thirty-plus years carefully constructing received what would ultimately become a fatal blow. Following that fateful day of demarcation, my life would never again be the same.
But let me back up a bit.
By the time Iād arrived at my early thirties, I was cloaked in all the trappings of outward success: a lucrative career in the high-paced, high-stress …