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What NOT to say to a cancer patient

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 Hi everyone! It’s me, Soulful Sunflower🌻 I forgot to post this months ago. But I didn’t want to forget to post period! So here we are in posting retroactively! Xoxoxo  Ive been MiA, well because I haven’t felt well and chemo was cancelled. 🥳🎉 yes, I needed the break but all this does is prolong everything. My poor body is like nahhh I am done! But here I am, gearing up for my next one. Just for a little education snippet:  My white blood cells were 500. Causing me to be severely neutropenia:  occurs when you have too few neutrophils, the Mayo Clinic states neutropenia is “A type of white blood cells. While all white blood cells help your body fight infections, neutrophils are important for fighting certain infections, especially those caused by bacteria.”  My hemoglobin came down to 9.5: Typical symptoms of low hemoglobin include: weakness . shortness of breath . dizziness . fast, irregular heartbeat. pounding in the ears. headache. cold hands and feet. pale...

Chemo done, surgery partial done, now what?

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 Hi, it’s me! Soulful sunflower! I have let you down and not written more like I had hoped. Spent more time on IG giving away goodies to people who are fighting their own cancer journey!  I figure I’d repost my thoughts on now what?  Hi everyone! Happy Monday:) I said bye to my dad and step mom today for awhile until my next surgery. Thought the best way to say goodbye, would be by doing a giveaway to 3 cancer patients this week!! ⚡️ #giveaway ⚡️ I’ve been struggling to navigate my mental health lately of where I am at with everything.  I don’t “look” sick to the naked eye people assume I am sooo happy! It’s not that I am not happy- I’d probably like to say more indifferent or I feel nothing. It took so much to get through chemo, took so much to get through my 5 recent procedures where I had to go under anesthesia. I’m tired, and despite what people see, the smile, the hair growing back, I’m not really sure ‘happy’ is the best word to describe it. They say the bigges...