This is a Secret Subject Swap blogging challenge. Each month a group of bloggers is given a secret challenge to interpret in their own way. The challenges are just that -- to make you step out of your comfort zone and share your thoughts about that subject in a new way.
My challenge this month gripped my heart. It would take a book to be able to answer it but then again, that is why I wrote my memoir. Battered Hope was written about so many traumas in my own life so other people would be able to relate to me on a variety of levels.
Here is the question posed to me this month and my answer is in the form of other questions:
Has
there ever been a time in your life where, in the heat of the moment,
you would have literally sold your soul for a different outcome if it
was an actual possibility and not just a phrase?
When we hear the word 'cancer' something happens to us. It may feel like we got kicked in the stomach or our heart skips a beat. We react in fear whenever someone we care about receives that diagnosis.
That happened to me decades ago. The doctor told me that the only possibility I would have of living more than a year would be to have a total hysterectomy. Although I was very sick and struggling with a lot of pain and discomfort, I knew in my heart that I was born to be a mom and that couldn't happen if I didn't have the working parts.
As a young woman who had zero knowledge about cancer and no idea what I could possibly do to win this battle, I told my doctor "No, I won't accept that. I am going to walk in here pregnant one day."
At that point, the doctor got extremely angry and almost spit at me when he shouted, "Then, lady, go home.....suffer....and die!"
