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The Long and Winding Road

It’s been two years since a urologist stuck his finger up my ass for a really long time and then asked me a question that made my heart sink. How do you feel about an MRI? And my answer to him was I guess what I don’t know could kill me right? He didn’t laugh at my feeble attempt at levity. And thus began “my cancer journey”. It’s been two years of learning things about myself that I thought I had already learned and new things that I had no idea of. As Jung said: "Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate." I sit with those words daily and now welcome my shadow to come into the Light. It’s been a journey unlike any other. These two years also taught me that the person that I had married 23 years ago was not really the person I thought she was and the shattering of those images and beliefs was heartbreaking. I’m sure if asked, she would say the same of me. We are now officially divorced. It’s been two years sinc...