Healing yourself after injury, illness, or surgery
When I was in my 30s, I was diagnosed with breast cancer and went through treatment and was really sick. When I was done with treatment, I was told to go back to work, but I was too sick to go back to work. At the time, cancer rehabilitation wasn't an option where I'd been treated, and I had to figure out how to heal myself. One of the biggest obstacles is that it can take a long time. Insurance doesn't always pay for treatments, and there aren't always enough resources. So people really are left to heal on their own.
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