What just happened? After being treated for breast cancer, most women ask this question, to themselves. This question leads many, if not most, breast cancer survivors into a heavy examination of their lives, now that survivorship is an integral part of who she is. Depending on your loved one, she may or may not want to make big changes in her life, while you just want to get back to the way things were before. ‘‘She is thinking that she is forever changed, and says to herself, ‘I am not going back to the way things were,’ ’’ according to Penny Damaskos, Coordinator of the Post-Treatment Resource Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. ‘‘Cancer has been a huge wake-up call to live her life differently.’’
