PART 1
Five months after finishing chemotherapy, I surprised my husband with a weekend at the same mountain hotel where we had spent our honeymoon twenty years earlier. I wanted one thing more than anything else: to feel like Jeffrey’s wife again instead of the fragile patient he had spent the past year caring for.
Cancer had changed almost everything about the way I saw myself. My thick auburn hair had been reduced to barely an inch of soft fuzz. Surgery had left scars across my chest, and months of
