Monica’s Story

I recently completed cancer treatment and have been struggling with my mental health. I feel like treatment was the easy part—I just showed up and was told what to do. But now that it’s all stopped abruptly, I’m forced to process everything that just happened to me, and I can’t help but feel betrayed by my body.

I don’t know who I am anymore. I’m grieving the carefree, happy person I was before this, but the hardest thing has been giving up my ability to bear children since I had to have a hysterectomy. I don’t think I’ll ever get over that.

-Monica