Quote from Brandonf:
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I think you just go through phases. When I was diagnosed the diagnosis was very bad, substantially less than a 50/50 chance of five year survival. My first reaction was panic, then I started to feel sorry for myself..why me...then I gave up for awhile and just wanted it to be all over with one way or the other, then I was mad, sometimes I went through all these emotions in a single day, hell sometimes in a single hour. I've been very lucky in that I got involved in a test program and, at least I think, I wasnt a given a placebo, because the doctor has been very surprised at my recovery thus far, like I said the biggest thing I'm facing right now is the flesh eating strep, which nearly killed me this summer, I spent 13 days in the ICU, over 90 days in the hospital and have had nearly a dozen surgeries to take infected tissue out. I have essentially no muscle left at all on the right hip and down my thigh to about my knee..so I walk like a derelict now, but It could have been much worse. I just wish I still had a girlfriend/wife or something that had been with me through this whole thing, coz now when I get a new one, the first time I take off my pants and she sees my leg/hip and my shirt and she see's where I've had my mastectomy, she might rightly decide she ain't in the mood anymore
Brandon, If you are honest with a girl about how you feel, like the quote you gave above, I think some girls would see your strength, and" in the mood" will not be a problem for her.
Wishing for you a full recovery. Your story is inspirational.