Cancer in Quarantine: Christmas Looks Different This Year, A Reflection

Heather Jauquet
5 min readDec 26, 2020
Photo by Volodymyr Hryshchenko on Unsplash

One year ago we celebrated Christmas with family. One year ago I didn’t have cancer. One year ago, we weren’t in the middle of a pandemic. Little did I know that 6 weeks later I would be diagnosed with breast cancer, my state would go into lockdown, and I wouldn’t be able to hug my extended family nine months and counting.

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Heather Jauquet

Writer. Wife. Mom. Runner. Crocheter. Cancer patient in a pandemic.