Halloween is for kids and cancer patients! There is joy that overflows from a child when asked, “What do you want to be for Halloween”. With it’s endless possibilities to express who they want to become, who they idolize. As a cancer patient the opportunity returns.
It is a time to embrace the changes, the baldness, the scars. A time to laugh at the hand you have been dealt.
It is a day off from taking CANCER seriously.
It is a time to take charge of YOUR identity, even if it is just for a day.
Halloween 2014 -a week after my double mastectomy- there was no party but there was an appointment to remove my final drain bag. Circumstance made my costume…I was the Bride of Frankenstein, cut up and put back together. My amazing husband dressed as Dr. Frankenstein to support my crazy.
It brought joy to what could have been an otherwise traumatizing situation. I had not seen my bare chest until that appointment and when I did my first thought was “What a FUCKING badass”. It set the tone for my journey to follow.
Find out what I dressed up as this year (Spoiler: IT IS EPIC) on Instagram @AnielaMcG.
Did you dress up during your treatment? Share what you were. Comment below.