How Cancer At Seventeen Made Me Fall In Love With Myself
6 min readFeb 3, 2021
I thought I was invinsible. I was a senior in high school running on 4 hours of sleep everyday, partying relentlessly on the weekends and consuming ungodly amounts of coffee just to make it through each day. I was aware of my endless exhaustion but ignorantly chalked it up to the wild teenage lifestyle I was living because after all, I was having fun and frankly, did not care to slow down.