Real talk on what it's like to survive cancer

"An acquaintance once asked me how I felt about cancer, now that it’s 'all over,' now that I know I was destined to survive. Aren’t I glad it happened? Didn’t I learn something? Didn’t good things come out of cancer? Let’s see…scars, missing body parts, permanent damage to nerves, lowered cognitive ability, fear that never really goes away. So, no."–Donna Trussell, "The ghosts of ovarian cancer." [Washington Post, HT: @lanisia]