Anonymous nails it. The fight to just be.

Someone wrote this as a response to my latest blog. It is so meaningful to me. It really says so much with so little. Thank you anonymous. Thank you for sharing about your Mother's search for self with cancer and the vigilance to keep one's self that is necessary. Thank you-I hope you read this. MLH

Fighting and battling... my mom is a stage four cancer survivor--different sort. We used to have the same discussions about what it means to fight and to battle cancer. Having never gone through this myself, and only sharing what she came to believe... it was a fight to be you, to be who you are and be strong while you face this every day... to not lose yourself somewhere in the middle. She said that she wanted to be seen as herself first and not as someone with cancer. I wonder does that make sense? Watching her, it was one of the toughest struggles... doctors, and medicine, and treatments, and people changing around you, and tests, and more doctors, etc. as she fought to just be.