.The biggest questions I had going into my first consult with the sarcoma specialist were:
- How do I tell my parents?
- What are my fertility options?
- Can I keep working and living my life?
- What does my treatment time frame look like?
- How do I afford all of this?
Once you have an idea of what you are working with it’s not possible to wrap your head around how much your life is about to change in the short time before you start treatment. How you want to tell people or not tell people or enjoy your time outside or cry into your pillow is completely up to you. This is your news and how it is shared is your choice. I decided not to tell anyone until I knew my official diagnosis and what treatment looked like, I also largely ignored what I was about to come up against and chose to enjoy my time as much as I could before going into long hospital stays while channeling my lack of control into researching the heck out of the surgery I was going in for.