Being A Survivor

For a class I am attending on Survivorship, the label "Survivor" begins the moment a person is diagnosed with any type of cancer.  We are bombarded with tests, surgeries and treatments, and we survive each and every one of those aspects of our illness.  What happens to us when we are ready to begin living our full lives again?  We're still Survivors, always will be, but how do we take the next step to actually living?