Cancer in Quarantine: Offering up your Suffering
6 min readNov 17, 2020
It was my intention at the beginning of my HER 2+/ER+/PR- breast cancer diagnosis in February 2020 to offer up my suffering for someone else. I wanted to take myself out of the selfish “Why me?” and quietly offer up my suffering for someone else because, “Why not me?” But, I couldn’t do it. When I prayed, I did my best to think of others, to step outside of myself, and to find respite under the mantle of…
