Lymphedema is a disease that occurs when the lymphatic vessels do not drain lymphatic fluid properly. It usually affects one or both arms and/or legs.

When I had no hair, I was recommended to speed up the new growth and strengthen it. I was told that sometimes, with so many chemicals, the new hair is still damaged or weak.

A few days ago I saw a video with a very powerful message that made me think a lot about how my body recovered quickly, which made a lot of sense to me.

I am going to share with you a plan that my psychologist told me during one of my sessions “Create your support plan” It is about selecting the people who support you the most and you will know for sure, when you feel extremely sad and feel like your world is falling apart with a lot of depression because of everything you are experiencing, THE BEST THING IS TO SEEK PROFESSIONAL HELP, and adding your emotional support.

I don't know what you believe or what religion you practice, but have you ever wondered why cancer happen to you?

It's very difficult to feel beautiful when you don't have hair. I used to think that hair isn't everything in life, but after losing it and not having it, you start to value it more, after not having any, I saw myself like another person, I saw pictures of me in the past and I felt that Karen was gone, I realized how much confidence the hair give it to you after styling it, I started my worst depression after shaving my hair, I did not feel beautiful, I was always using a wig, feeling shame of my baldness, but everything changed after watching a Marvel movie, the Black Panther II. When I saw the female warriors with their BEAUTIFUL Tattoos on their heads and they were as bald as me, fighting and being proud, I FELT SO INSPIRE, and the only thing I could not stop thinking about was getting a tattoo like that, I thought it will be the best having a henna tattoo.

Unfortunately, it's almost impossible not to feel depressed on this pad of cancer, ONE of the TOOLS that helped me with this process was listening to GOOD MUSIC WITH POSITIVE MESSAGE. 

When you get the bad news of cancer hits your life, it's hard to go back to your "normal" routine because after that huge news, it's never always the same, but REMEMBER everything is a process, take a day at a time, that helped me at the beginning I STOP THINKING OF THE FUTURE, I FOCUS ON TODAY!For example, I am focusing on what I have to do today like communicating with my loved ones, and taking time not to think about Cancer all day, that's the worst you can do for yourself.

Cancer SUCKS and it will always be hard, no matter how much time you have been going through or how much you fight it is always HARD! So GIVE YOURSELF time and GRACE to process this shocker news, because never it's easy to receive this type of news.