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When medical trauma hijacks celebrations

I got my cancer diagnosis on my daughter's birthday three years ago and now I can't celebrate her without remembering how afraid I was that I'd miss too many of her birthdays.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The specter of our own mortality can haunt the joy we try to give others.

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