Of cakes and cancer
November 24, 2015 12:58 PM Subscribe
After Breast Cancer Diagnosis, a Baking Blogger Uses Cake to Tell Her Story About a year into blogging, one of Sung’s cakes went viral: a cupcake version of the Very Hungry Caterpillar...and Sung’s social media following exploded ...She was even approached by a publisher to write a cookbook.
And then..."I felt a thickening of flesh where my breast meets my rib cage, and I was like, ‘Huh. That could just be my rib?’ [But] it turned out that there were two tumors in there.”
Thank you for this. I went to her blog to read the original post and it's excellent. I was also diagnosed with breast cancer this year at 38, just a few weeks after she was, and our treatment plans have been virtually identical. It was a surreal read.
One thing I love especially is that she doesn't act like it's over. I know, and I'm sure she knows also, that the vast majority of Stage IA breast cancers do not recur. But I haven't believed for one second that cancer is over for me, and nobody else I've met going through this believes it, either. I feel like the whole rest of my life will be a balance between trying to live a normal life and also appreciating every second to its very fullest just in case this thing comes back to kill me. Like she says at the end, "fingers crossed."
posted by something something at 1:55 PM on November 24, 2015 [4 favorites]
One thing I love especially is that she doesn't act like it's over. I know, and I'm sure she knows also, that the vast majority of Stage IA breast cancers do not recur. But I haven't believed for one second that cancer is over for me, and nobody else I've met going through this believes it, either. I feel like the whole rest of my life will be a balance between trying to live a normal life and also appreciating every second to its very fullest just in case this thing comes back to kill me. Like she says at the end, "fingers crossed."
posted by something something at 1:55 PM on November 24, 2015 [4 favorites]
Thank you for posting that link. It is excellent (though perhaps NSFW, much more so than the article I posted). I especially like the caption of the closing photo: Cop a feel, save your life.
Cancer of various sorts is rampant in my family, including breast cancer. I haven't had it, but I have taken care of a relative post-mastectomy. Some of my relatives have had a very hard time with it. Others have gone on to live long, full lives after treatment was over.
As a teen, my mother took care of her mother during chemo and radiation. She has always said her mother died from the treatments, not from cancer. So I think I have some awareness of how far treatment has come. It is much more humane than it used to be and survival rates are up.
I hope your battle is short and slam-dunk victorious, with no recurrence.
posted by Michele in California at 2:28 PM on November 24, 2015 [1 favorite]
Cancer of various sorts is rampant in my family, including breast cancer. I haven't had it, but I have taken care of a relative post-mastectomy. Some of my relatives have had a very hard time with it. Others have gone on to live long, full lives after treatment was over.
As a teen, my mother took care of her mother during chemo and radiation. She has always said her mother died from the treatments, not from cancer. So I think I have some awareness of how far treatment has come. It is much more humane than it used to be and survival rates are up.
I hope your battle is short and slam-dunk victorious, with no recurrence.
posted by Michele in California at 2:28 PM on November 24, 2015 [1 favorite]
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Also, #$!@ cancer.
posted by wenestvedt at 1:38 PM on November 24, 2015 [1 favorite]