When Life Gives You Scars
How do you put an illness in past tense? In this blog teenage cancer survivor, author and speaker Mette de Fine Licht share her thoughts about getting over cancer. The illness has left her with a big scar on her right leg. Not to mention the mental scars from long...
From Cancer To Checkup
How does it feel to be a cancer survivor going back to the hospital – not for treatments but for a checkup? What thoughts crosses her mind? And how does she deal with all the memories and the anxiety? Mette is a teenage cancer survivor. Ewing’s sarcoma. It...Latest on Facebook
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“Lucky me”:
Summer time and swings in the garden 👦🏼👶🏼💙☀️
But what to do if pains from the past are haunting you?
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This is me swinging the kids while sitting down. Because I have to, not because of laziness. And this is the look of my face when the prothesis in my right leg - put there to replace a Ewing’s Sarcoma - hurts like h*** ...
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I just finished a text for @elephantsandteamagazine about being a teen cancer survivor and the effects now. The article will be published online and in the printed Magazine come September.
I hope it will inspire those of you who are struggling to find a path in your present (or way to swing your kids despite pains and late effects).
It’s not fair to get cancer when your life has just begun. And it’s not fair, that if you’re lucky enough to survive, you now have to look ahead and expect a life filled with late effects and all kinds of traumas. But. There’s always something to be grateful for. If you’re lucky enough to survive. I named the article “Lucky me”.
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