There has to be a silver lining somewhere....RIGHT?

I am a firm believer that "Everything happens for a reason" and "That every cloud has a silver lining." 


I still tried to keep that outlook all through my cancer as well...its very hard to do when faced with such a horrible situation though.


It was my Aunt who first taught me that there are "good" things in cancer!  I know what could possible be "good" in cancer...well we all know the bad, the pain, the loss, the possibility of death, chemo, radiation, surgery, and so on.


BUT!  Trust me there is a "good"  ...


So yea you loose your hair...but there is no more bad hair day, there is no more shaving your legs, waxing, etc.


And yea your bald so everyone stares and it is very obvious you have cancer so USE IT!!!!  It's called the cancer card... 20 items or less... PSSSSHHH.... no one is going to tell the bald lady you have 30 items.... HOV lanes.... yea....who is going to give the sad crying bald lady a ticket for being alone on 66 in the HOV lane!  I dare ya! 

Cancer leads you to feel so blah so when you do want to visit a steak house and eat 2 steaks and salad and a baked potato AND the giant lava cake... go for it.... they will just be excited you can eat and keep it down.

Don't want to cook, or vaccumm or do dishes.... use the cancer card! 

And its a great chance to play on silly questions!  Lucky me I lost mine during the bald Brittney phase so I got to use it to the full extent when people in line at the grocery store would look at me and ask "Do you have cancer?" "NO!  I really like Brittney!"

The silver lining isn't always so easy to see!  Sometimes you have to look deep into the cloud!  The biggest part of my silver lining was what cancer gave me!  Not what it took!  It gave me the chance to look at every day as an opportunity.  I looked at the world so different.  I literally stopped to smell the roses, to look at the mountains beauty, to listen to my childrens laughter. 

Now four years out of cancer I forget these daily silver linings sometimes. 

But they are still there....